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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

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

Leaving Myself Way Yourself
Man has no greater enemy than himself. I have acted contrary to my sentiments and inclination; throughout our whole lives we do what we never intended, and what we proposed to do, we leave undone.
PETRARCH

Enemy Greatness Man Propose
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
Reality is always the foe of famous names.
PETRARCH

Foe Names Reality
He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
PETRARCH

Himself Light Love
Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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Overcome Ruthless Strive
How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
PETRARCH

Bark Difficult Ignorance Save
Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.
PETRARCH

Elegant Empty Language Production
Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
PETRARCH

Greatness Togetherness
Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief.
PETRARCH

Argument Grief Himself
Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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Error Men Mind
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
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
While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.
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Body Hands Life Thinking
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
The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
PETRARCH

Age Difference Love Practice Relationship

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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