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What name to call thee by, O virgin fair, I know not, for thy looks are not of earth And more than mortal seems thy countenances.

Petrarch

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
I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.
PETRARCH

Goodness Known Love Pursue Worst
While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.
PETRARCH

Body Hands Life Thinking
The time will come when every change shall cease, This quick revolving wheel shall rest in peace: No summer then shall glow, not winter freeze; Nothing shall be to come, and nothing past, But an eternal now shall ever last.
PETRARCH

Change Forever Glow Last Quick Time
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
I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.
PETRARCH

Human Mourn Progress Weakness
The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
PETRARCH

Beginning Doubt End One Liner
How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
PETRARCH

Bark Difficult Ignorance Save
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
Do you suppose there is any living man so unreasonable that if he found himself stricken with a dangerous ailment he would not anxiously desire to regain the blessing of health?
PETRARCH

Blessing Dangerous Health Live Man Reason Yourself
What name to call thee by, O virgin fair, I know not, for thy looks are not of earth And more than mortal seems thy countenances.
PETRARCH

Earth Known Moral Myself Name
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
PETRARCH

Cure Disgust Mother
All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
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Dreaming Pass Pleasure World
Often have I wondered with much curiosity as to our coming into this world and what will follow our departure.
PETRARCH

Curiosity Follow Wonder World
Reality is always the foe of famous names.
PETRARCH

Foe Names Reality
A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
PETRARCH

Desire Ourselves Rich

What name to call thee by, O virgin fair, I know not, for thy looks are not of earth And more than mortal seems thy countenances.

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