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Continued work and application form my soul’s nourishment. So soon as I commenced to rest and relax I should cease to live.

Petrarch

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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Change Forever Glow Last Quick Time
A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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Desire Ourselves Rich
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
Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief.
PETRARCH

Argument Grief Himself
Hitherto your eyes have been darkened and you have looked too much, yes, far too much, upon the things of earth. If these so much delight you what shall be your rapture when you lift your gaze to things eternal!
PETRARCH

Darkness Earth Eyes Forever Sight Yourself
How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
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Bark Difficult Ignorance Save
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.
PETRARCH

Beginning Bound Difference Influence Man Myself
Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good.
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Crown Forever Goodness Grace Heart Humanity Life Love Principle Right Soul Truth
My flowery and green age was passing away, and I feeling a chill in the fires had been wasting my heart, for I was drawing near the hillside above the grave.
PETRARCH

Age Chill Draw Feeling Flower Green Myself
Life in itself is short enough, but the physicians with their art, know to their amusement, how to make it still shorter.
PETRARCH

Amusement Enough Life Short
I saw the tracks of angels in the earth: the beauty of heaven walking by itself on the world.
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Angel Beautiful Earth Walk World
The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
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Age Difference Love Practice Relationship
Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
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Health One Liner Sick Vice Virtue
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Cure Disgust Mom
I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.
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Human Mourn Progress Weakness
Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
PETRARCH

Overcome Ruthless Strive

Continued work and application form my soul’s nourishment. So soon as I commenced to rest and relax I should cease to live.

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Continued work and application form my soul’s nourishment. So soon as I commenced to rest and relax I should cease to live.

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