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

Petrarch

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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Bitter Burn Freeze Memories Myself Sweet
Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.
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Death Dreams End Sleep Wake Up
While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.
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Body Hands Life Thinking
Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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Book Leadership Learning Madness
To begin with myself, then, the utterances of men concerning me will differ widely, since in passing judgment almost every one is influenced not so much by truth as by preference, and good and evil report alike know no bounds.
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Beginning Bound Difference Influence Man Myself
Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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Greatness Man Mindset Mistake
Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
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Easy One Liner Suspect
For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
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Comfort Death Need Right
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
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
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Cure Disgust Mother
You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
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Leaving Myself Way Yourself
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
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
For style beyond the genius never dares.
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Beyond Dare Genius Style
There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
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Agreement Burden Light Pen Poet

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