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Hitherto your eyes have been darkened and you have looked too much, yes, far too much, upon the things of earth. If these so much delight you what shall be your rapture when you lift your gaze to things eternal!

Petrarch

There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
PETRARCH

Agreement Burden Light Pen Poet
Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
PETRARCH

Error Men Mind
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
Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
PETRARCH

Health One Liner Sick Vice Virtue
And tears are heard within the harp I touch.
PETRARCH

Music Myself Tears Touch
Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
PETRARCH

Effort Enough Longing
Reality is always the foe of famous names.
PETRARCH

Foe Names Reality
Hope is incredible to the slave of grief.
PETRARCH

Grief Hope Incredible Slave
Alack our life, so beautiful to see, With how much ease life losest, in a day, What many years with pain and toil amassed!
PETRARCH

Beautiful Life Pain
I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
PETRARCH

Born Ourselves Preference Time
And men go about to wonder at the heights of the mountains, and the mighty waves of the sea, and the wide sweep of rivers, and the circuit of the ocean, and the revolution of the stars, but themselves they consider not.
PETRARCH

Height Man Mountain Revolution Stars Wonder
For virtue only finds eternal Fame.
PETRARCH

Fame Finding Forever Virtue
For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
PETRARCH

Comfort Death Need Right
Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.
PETRARCH

Elegant Empty Language Production
When the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified.
PETRARCH

Animal Cat Death Poet
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

Hitherto your eyes have been darkened and you have looked too much, yes, far too much, upon the things of earth. If these so much delight you what shall be your rapture when you lift your gaze to things eternal!

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Hitherto your eyes have been darkened and you have looked too much, yes, far too much, upon the things of earth. If these so much delight you what shall be your rapture when you lift your gaze to things eternal!

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