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I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.

Petrarch

Often have I wondered with much curiosity as to our coming into this world and what will follow our departure.
PETRARCH

Curiosity Follow Wonder World
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 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
For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
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Comfort Death Need Right
Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
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Health One Liner Sick Vice Virtue
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
PETRARCH

Cure Disgust Mom
A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
PETRARCH

Desire Ourselves Rich
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
PETRARCH

Cure Disgust Mother
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.
PETRARCH

Love Memories Sweet
I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
PETRARCH

Born Ourselves Preference Time
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 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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Bitter Burn Freeze Memories Myself Sweet
Hope is incredible to the slave of grief.
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Grief Hope Incredible Slave
Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another’s woe.
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Earth Enemy Heart
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
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

I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.

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