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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

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
Often have I wondered with much curiosity as to our coming into this world and what will follow our departure.
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Curiosity Follow Wonder World
I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.
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Human Mourn Progress Weakness
Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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Greatness Man Mindset Mistake
Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief
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Argument Grief Refine
The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
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Age Difference Love Practice Relationship
For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
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Comfort Death Need Right
Man has not a greater enemy than himself.
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Enemy Greatness Himself Man
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.
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Age Chill Draw Feeling Flower Green Myself
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.
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Height Man Mountain Revolution Stars Wonder
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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Leadership Love Mountain Myself Thinking Well World
When the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified.
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Animal Cat Death Poet
Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.
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Elegant Empty Language Production
Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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Error Men Mind
There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
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Agreement Burden Light Pen Poet
And I live on, but in grief and self-contempt, Left here without the light I loved so much, In a great tempest and with shrouds unkempt.
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Greatness Grief Light Live Love Myself

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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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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