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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

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
Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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Error Men Mind
Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief
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Argument Grief Refine
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Cure Disgust Mom
I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.
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Goodness Known Love Pursue Worst
I saw the tracks of angels in the earth: the beauty of heaven walking by itself on the world.
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Angel Beautiful Earth Walk World
Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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Endurance Perseverance Strive
Where you are is of no moment, but only what you are doing there. It is not the place that ennobles you, but you the place, and this only by doing that which is great and noble.
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Greatness Moments Noble Place Yourself
Books can warm the heart with friendly words and counsel, entering into a close relationship with us which is articulate and alive.
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Alive Book Friendship Heart Relationship Warm
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
Nothing mortal is enduring, and there is nothing sweet which does not presently end in bitterness.
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Bitterness Endurance Mortal Present
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
Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
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Health One Liner Sick Vice Virtue
How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
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Earth Fortune
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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Beautiful Life Pain
All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
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Dreaming Pass Pleasure World

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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