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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

You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
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Leaving Myself Way Yourself
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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Love Memories Sweet
I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
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Born Ourselves Preference Time
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 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
Events appear sad, pleasant, or painful, not because they are so in reality, but because we believe them to be so and the light in which we look at them depends upon our own judgment.
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Appearance Judgement Ourselves Pain Reality Sadness
And I live on, but in grief and self-contempt, Left here without the light I loved so much, In a great tempest and with shrouds unkempt.
PETRARCH

Greatness Grief Light Live Love Myself
I looked back at the summit of the mountain, which seemed but a cubit high in comparison with the height of human contemplation, were in not too often merged in the corruptions of the earth.
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Comparison Earth Mountain 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.
PETRARCH

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.
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Age Chill Draw Feeling Flower Green Myself
The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
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Age Difference Love Practice Relationship
How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
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Bark Difficult Ignorance Save
There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
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Agreement Burden Light Pen Poet
Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
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Greatness Togetherness
Love is the crowning grace of humanity.
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Crown Grace Humanity Love One Liner
It may be only glory that we seek here, but I persuade myself that, as long as we remain here, that is right. Another glory awaits us in heaven and he who reaches there will not wish even to think of earthly fame.
PETRARCH

Fame Glory Heaven Myself Seek Thinking

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