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A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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Desire Ourselves Rich
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.
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Cry Grief Heaven Lying
For style beyond the genius never dares.
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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
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
PETRARCH

Cure Disgust Mom
The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
PETRARCH

Beginning Doubt End One Liner
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
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
Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.
PETRARCH

Elegant Empty Language Production
Love is the crowning grace of humanity.
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Crown Grace Humanity Love One Liner
Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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Foe Names Reality
I desire that death find me ready and writing, or if it please Christ, praying and intears.
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Death Desire Finding Myself Ready
An equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.
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Equality Peace Time Wings
The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
PETRARCH

Age Difference Love Practice Relationship
How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
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Earth Fortune
Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
PETRARCH

Greatness Togetherness

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