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Petrarch

He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
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Himself Light Love
Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.
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Death Dreams End Sleep Wake Up
There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
PETRARCH

Agreement Burden Light Pen Poet
Hope is incredible to the slave of grief.
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Grief Hope Incredible Slave
Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
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Health One Liner Sick Vice Virtue
A good death does honour to a whole life.
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Death Goodness Life
Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief.
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Argument Grief Himself
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Cure Disgust Mom
Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
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Easy One Liner Suspect
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Cure Disgust Mother
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.
PETRARCH

Bitter Burn Freeze Memories Myself Sweet
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
Reality is always the foe of famous names.
PETRARCH

Foe Names Reality
Death had his grudge against me, and he got up in the way, like an armed robber, with a pike in his hand.
PETRARCH

Death Grudge Hands Himself
It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.
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Born Fortune Honor Oneself Respect
Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief
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Argument Grief Refine

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