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Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.

Petrarch

Nothing mortal is enduring, and there is nothing sweet which does not presently end in bitterness.
PETRARCH

Bitterness Endurance Mortal Present
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
Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
PETRARCH

Greatness Man Mindset Mistake
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
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
I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
PETRARCH

Born Ourselves Preference Time
Hope is incredible to the slave of grief.
PETRARCH

Grief Hope Incredible Slave
I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.
PETRARCH

Human Mourn Progress Weakness
Where you are is of no moment, but only what you are doing there. It is not the place that ennobles you, but you the place, and this only by doing that which is great and noble.
PETRARCH

Greatness Moments Noble Place Yourself
Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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Overcome Ruthless Strive
Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
PETRARCH

Endurance Perseverance Strive
Where are the numerous constructions erected by Agrippa, of which only the Pantheon remains? Where are the splendorous palaces of the emperors?
PETRARCH

Construction Emperor Palace
A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
PETRARCH

Desire Ourselves Rich
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.
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Enemy Greatness Man Propose
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
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
PETRARCH

Calculation Love

Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.

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