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Petrarch

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 have friends whose society is delightful to me; they are persons of all countries and of all ages; distinguished in war, in council, and in letters; easy to live with, always at my command.
PETRARCH

Command Country Delight Easy Friendship Live Myself Society
I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.
PETRARCH

Goodness Known Love Pursue Worst
Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
PETRARCH

Cancer Friendship One Liner Suspicious
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
All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
PETRARCH

Dreaming Pass Pleasure World
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
PETRARCH

Calculation Love
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
Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another’s woe.
PETRARCH

Earth Enemy Heart
Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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Enemy Famous Name One Liner Reality
And tears are heard within the harp I touch.
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Music Myself Tears Touch
Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
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Easy One Liner Suspect
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
How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
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Bark Difficult Ignorance Save
I desire that death find me ready and writing, or if it please Christ, praying and intears.
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Death Desire Finding Myself Ready
How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
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Earth Fortune

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