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Petrarch

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?
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Blessing Dangerous Health Live Man Reason Yourself
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
Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
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Effort Enough Longing
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
While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.
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Body Hands Life Thinking
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
I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.
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Human Mourn Progress Weakness
Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another’s woe.
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Earth Enemy Heart
I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
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Born Ourselves Preference Time
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
There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
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Agreement Burden Light Pen Poet
Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief
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Argument Grief Refine
Nothing mortal is enduring, and there is nothing sweet which does not presently end in bitterness.
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Bitterness Endurance Mortal Present
How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
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Earth Fortune
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

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