Nothing mortal is enduring, and there is nothing sweet which does not presently end in bitterness.
PETRARCHWhere are the numerous constructions erected by Agrippa, of which only the Pantheon remains? Where are the splendorous palaces of the emperors?
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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.
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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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From thought to thought, from mountain peak to mountain. Love leads me on; for I can never still My trouble on the world’s well beaten ways.
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I saw the tracks of angels in the earth: the beauty of heaven walking by itself on the world.
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Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
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Where are the numerous constructions erected by Agrippa, of which only the Pantheon remains? Where are the splendorous palaces of the emperors?
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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence; and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe.
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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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Alack our life, so beautiful to see, With how much ease life losest, in a day, What many years with pain and toil amassed!
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Life in itself is short enough, but the physicians with their art, know to their amusement, how to make it still shorter.
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I desire that death find me ready and writing, or if it please Christ, praying and intears.
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