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My flowery and green age was passing away, and I feeling a chill in the fires had been wasting my heart, for I was drawing near the hillside above the grave.

Petrarch

Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
PETRARCH

Easy One Liner Suspect
Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
PETRARCH

Book Leadership Learning Madness
I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.
PETRARCH

Goodness Known Love Pursue Worst
From thought to thought, from mountain peak to mountain. Love leads me on; for I can never still My trouble on the world’s well beaten ways.
PETRARCH

Leadership Love Mountain Myself Thinking Well World
Continued work and application form my soul’s nourishment. So soon as I commenced to rest and relax I should cease to live.
PETRARCH

Application Live Myself Nourishment Soul Work
Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
PETRARCH

Greatness Man Mindset Mistake
And I live on, but in grief and self-contempt, Left here without the light I loved so much, In a great tempest and with shrouds unkempt.
PETRARCH

Greatness Grief Light Live Love Myself
Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.
PETRARCH

Death Dreams End Sleep Wake Up
How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
PETRARCH

Bark Difficult Ignorance Save
I desire that death find me ready and writing, or if it please Christ, praying and intears.
PETRARCH

Death Desire Finding Myself Ready
Alack our life, so beautiful to see, With how much ease life losest, in a day, What many years with pain and toil amassed!
PETRARCH

Beautiful Life Pain
You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
PETRARCH

Leaving Myself Way Yourself
Go, grieving rimes of mine, to that hard stone Whereunder lies my darling, lies my dear, And cry to her to speak from heaven’s sphere.
PETRARCH

Cry Grief Heaven Lying
For style beyond the genius never dares.
PETRARCH

Beyond Dare Genius Style
I saw the tracks of angels in the earth: the beauty of heaven walking by itself on the world.
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Angel Beautiful Earth Walk World
All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
PETRARCH

Dreaming Pass Pleasure World

My flowery and green age was passing away, and I feeling a chill in the fires had been wasting my heart, for I was drawing near the hillside above the grave.

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