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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

Five enemies of peace inhabit with us – avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.
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Ambition Enemy Enjoyment Jealous Peace
I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
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Myself Pride
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
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Cure Disgust Mom
Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.
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Elegant Empty Language Production
Love is the crowning grace of humanity.
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Crown Grace Humanity Love One Liner
Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
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Greatness Togetherness
A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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Desire Ourselves Rich
When the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified.
PETRARCH

Animal Cat Death Poet
Events appear sad, pleasant, or painful, not because they are so in reality, but because we believe them to be so and the light in which we look at them depends upon our own judgment.
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Appearance Judgement Ourselves Pain Reality Sadness
Man has not a greater enemy than himself.
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Enemy Greatness Himself Man
For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
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Comfort Death Need Right
Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another’s woe.
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Earth Enemy Heart
To begin with myself, then, the utterances of men concerning me will differ widely, since in passing judgment almost every one is influenced not so much by truth as by preference, and good and evil report alike know no bounds.
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Beginning Bound Difference Influence Man Myself
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.
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Love Memories Sweet

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.

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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.

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