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A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.

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Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
PETRARCH

Effort Enough Longing
I freeze and burn, love is bitter and sweet, my sighs are tempests and my tears are floods, I am in ecstasy and agony, I am possessed by memories of her and I am in exile from myself.
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Love Memories Sweet
How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
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Bark Difficult Ignorance Save
Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence; and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe.
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Absence Beginning Breathe Myself Soul
I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.
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Goodness Known Love Pursue Worst
Life in itself is short enough, but the physicians with their art, know to their amusement, how to make it still shorter.
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Amusement Enough Life Short
Death had his grudge against me, and he got up in the way, like an armed robber, with a pike in his hand.
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Death Grudge Hands Himself
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
PETRARCH

Calculation Love
A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
PETRARCH

Desire Ourselves Rich
Hope is incredible to the slave of grief.
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Grief Hope Incredible Slave
Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another’s woe.
PETRARCH

Earth Enemy Heart
Continued work and application form my soul’s nourishment. So soon as I commenced to rest and relax I should cease to live.
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Application Live Myself Nourishment Soul Work
When the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified.
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Animal Cat Death Poet
You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
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Leaving Myself Way Yourself
Often have I wondered with much curiosity as to our coming into this world and what will follow our departure.
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Curiosity Follow Wonder World
All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
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Dreaming Pass Pleasure World

A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.

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