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• I had got this far, and was thinking of what to say next, and as my habit is, I was pricking the paper idly with my pen. And I thought how, between one dip of the pen and the next, time goes on, and I hurry, drive myself, and speed toward death. We are always dying. I while I write, you while you read, and others while they listen or stop their ears, they are all dying.

  Petrarch

  Writing, Thinking, Dying

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• Go, grieving rimes of mine, to that hard stone
  Whereunder lies my darling, lies my dear,
  And cry to her to speak from heaven's sphere.

  Petrarch

  Lying, Grief, Grieving

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• 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

  Country, War, Book

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• 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

  Petrarch

  Names, Looks, Demise

  Francesco Petrarch (2016). “Delphi Collected Poetical Works of Francesco Petrarch (Illustrated)”, Delphi Classics

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• For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.

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  Death, Comfort, Needs

  Francesco Petrarch (2016). “Delphi Collected Poetical Works of Francesco Petrarch (Illustrated)”, p.306, Delphi Classics

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• 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, Hands, Way

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• Whyle I was abowte to chaunge myn olde lyff--
  What sorowe I suffred, dyseese, angre and stryff,
  Cracchynge myn here, my chekys all totare,
  Wrythynge my fyngres for angwysshe and care,
  Watrynge the erthe with my byttre salte teres
  That the crye of my syghes ascended to Goddys eres,
  My knees with myn handys grasped togedyre soore,
  And yitt I stode the same man I was afore
  Tyl a depe profounde remembraunce att the laste
  Hadd all my wrecchednesse afore myn eyn caste

  Petrarch

  Men, Suffering, Care

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• 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

  Death, Heart, Drawing

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• An equal doom clipp'd Time's blest wings of peace.

  Petrarch

  Peace, Wings, Equal

  Francesco Petrarch (2016). “Delphi Collected Poetical Works of Francesco Petrarch (Illustrated)”, p.286, Delphi Classics

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