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Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.

Petrarch

I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
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Myself Pride
Hope is incredible to the slave of grief.
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Grief Hope Incredible Slave
What name to call thee by, O virgin fair, I know not, for thy looks are not of earth And more than mortal seems thy countenances.
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Earth Known Moral Myself Name
You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
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Leaving Myself Way Yourself
Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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Endurance Perseverance Strive
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
Continued work and application form my soul’s nourishment. So soon as I commenced to rest and relax I should cease to live.
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Application Live Myself Nourishment Soul Work
Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.
PETRARCH

Death Dreams End Sleep Wake Up
When the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified.
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Animal Cat Death Poet
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 fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
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Earth Fortune
I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
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Born Ourselves Preference Time
For though I am a body of this earth, my firm desire is born from the stars.
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Body Desire Earth Myself Stars
How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
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Bliss Follow Old Quick
Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
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Health One Liner Sick Vice Virtue
For style beyond the genius never dares.
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Beyond Dare Genius Style

Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.

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