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I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.

Petrarch

When the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified.
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Animal Cat Death Poet
Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
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Health One Liner Sick Vice Virtue
Go, grieving rimes of mine, to that hard stone Whereunder lies my darling, lies my dear, And cry to her to speak from heaven’s sphere.
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Cry Grief Heaven Lying
For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
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Comfort Death Need Right
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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Love Memories Sweet
Man has not a greater enemy than himself.
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Enemy Greatness Himself Man
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
The greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts.
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Effort Greatness Myself
Events appear sad, pleasant, or painful, not because they are so in reality, but because we believe them to be so and the light in which we look at them depends upon our own judgment.
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Appearance Judgement Ourselves Pain Reality Sadness
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
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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Amusement Enough Life Short
A good death does honour to a whole life.
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Death Goodness Life
He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
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Himself Light Love
Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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Error Men Mind
Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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Book Leadership Learning Madness
I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
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Born Ourselves Preference Time

I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.

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