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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

Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence; and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe.
PETRARCH

Absence Beginning Breathe Myself Soul
And tears are heard within the harp I touch.
PETRARCH

Music Myself Tears Touch
It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.
PETRARCH

Born Merit Throne
I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
PETRARCH

Myself Pride
Death had his grudge against me, and he got up in the way, like an armed robber, with a pike in his hand.
PETRARCH

Death Grudge Hands Himself
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

Change Forever Glow Last Quick Time
A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
PETRARCH

Desire Ourselves Rich
Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
PETRARCH

Easy One Liner Suspect
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.
PETRARCH

Crown Forever Goodness Grace Heart Humanity Life Love Principle Right Soul Truth
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
When the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified.
PETRARCH

Animal Cat Death Poet
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
Books can warm the heart with friendly words and counsel, entering into a close relationship with us which is articulate and alive.
PETRARCH

Alive Book Friendship Heart Relationship Warm
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
Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
PETRARCH

Book Leadership Learning Madness
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

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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