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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

Hope is incredible to the slave of grief.
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Grief Hope Incredible Slave
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
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
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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Change Forever Glow Last Quick Time
Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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Error Men Mind
Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
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Easy One Liner Suspect
He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
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Himself Light Love
For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
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Comfort Death Need Right
How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
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Earth Fortune
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
Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence; and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe.
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Absence Beginning Breathe Myself Soul
Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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Overcome Ruthless Strive
I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
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Myself Pride
When the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified.
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Animal Cat Death Poet
Hitherto your eyes have been darkened and you have looked too much, yes, far too much, upon the things of earth. If these so much delight you what shall be your rapture when you lift your gaze to things eternal!
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Darkness Earth Eyes Forever Sight Yourself
The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
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Age Difference Love Practice Relationship

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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