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All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.

Petrarch

All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
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Dreaming Pass Pleasure World
I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.
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Goodness Known Love Pursue Worst
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
I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
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Myself Pride
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Cure Disgust Mom
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
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
Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
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Health One Liner Sick Vice Virtue
Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
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Cancer Friendship One Liner Suspicious
Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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Endurance Perseverance Strive
Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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Error Men Mind
For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
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Comfort Death Need Right
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
He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
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Himself Light Love
It is better to will the good than to know the truth.
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Better Goodness Known Willing
Death had his grudge against me, and he got up in the way, like an armed robber, with a pike in his hand.
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Death Grudge Hands Himself

All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.

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