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.
PETRARCHHope is incredible to the slave of grief.
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It is better to will the good than to know the truth.
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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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He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
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Love is the crowning grace of humanity.
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It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.
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There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
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Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief
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You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
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An equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.
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The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
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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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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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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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Often have I wondered with much curiosity as to our coming into this world and what will follow our departure.
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Hope is incredible to the slave of grief.
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