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And tears are heard within the harp I touch.

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For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
PETRARCH

Comfort Death Need Right
And tears are heard within the harp I touch.
PETRARCH

Music Myself Tears Touch
I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.
PETRARCH

Human Mourn Progress Weakness
I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
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Born Ourselves Preference Time
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
PETRARCH

Cure Disgust Mom
And men go about to wonder at the heights of the mountains, and the mighty waves of the sea, and the wide sweep of rivers, and the circuit of the ocean, and the revolution of the stars, but themselves they consider not.
PETRARCH

Height Man Mountain Revolution Stars Wonder
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
From thought to thought, from mountain peak to mountain. Love leads me on; for I can never still My trouble on the world’s well beaten ways.
PETRARCH

Leadership Love Mountain Myself Thinking Well World
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
Reality is always the foe of famous names.
PETRARCH

Foe Names Reality
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 Merit Throne
Hope is incredible to the slave of grief.
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Grief Hope Incredible Slave
Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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Book Leadership Learning Madness
The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
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Age Difference Love Practice Relationship
Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
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Easy One Liner Suspect
I desire that death find me ready and writing, or if it please Christ, praying and intears.
PETRARCH

Death Desire Finding Myself Ready

And tears are heard within the harp I touch.

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