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Petrarch

Where are the numerous constructions erected by Agrippa, of which only the Pantheon remains? Where are the splendorous palaces of the emperors?
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Construction Emperor Palace
The greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts.
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Effort Greatness Myself
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
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
An equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.
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Equality Peace Time Wings
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Cure Disgust Mother
For virtue only finds eternal Fame.
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Fame Finding Forever Virtue
Alack our life, so beautiful to see, With how much ease life losest, in a day, What many years with pain and toil amassed!
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Beautiful Life Pain
It may be only glory that we seek here, but I persuade myself that, as long as we remain here, that is right. Another glory awaits us in heaven and he who reaches there will not wish even to think of earthly fame.
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Fame Glory Heaven Myself Seek Thinking
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
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.
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Greatness Grief Light Live Love Myself
I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.
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Goodness Known Love Pursue Worst
How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
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Bliss Follow Old Quick
Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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Foe Names Reality
Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
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Greatness Togetherness
Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
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Effort Enough Longing
For though I am a body of this earth, my firm desire is born from the stars.
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Body Desire Earth Myself Stars
How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
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Bark Difficult Ignorance Save
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
Books can warm the heart with friendly words and counsel, entering into a close relationship with us which is articulate and alive.
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Alive Book Friendship Heart Relationship Warm
For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
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Comfort Death Need Right
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
I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
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Myself Pride
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
You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
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Leaving Myself Way Yourself
While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.
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Body Hands Life Thinking
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

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