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He loves but lightly who his love can tell.

Petrarch

I looked back at the summit of the mountain, which seemed but a cubit high in comparison with the height of human contemplation, were in not too often merged in the corruptions of the earth.
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Comparison Earth Mountain Myself
I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.
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Goodness Known Love Pursue Worst
Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief
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Argument Grief Refine
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
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Calculation Love
Hope is incredible to the slave of grief.
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Grief Hope Incredible Slave
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
For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
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Comfort Death Need Right
Love is the crowning grace of humanity.
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Crown Grace Humanity Love One Liner
Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good.
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Crown Forever Goodness Grace Heart Humanity Life Love Principle Right Soul Truth
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
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
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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Born Fortune Honor Oneself Respect
When the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified.
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Animal Cat Death Poet
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
And tears are heard within the harp I touch.
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Music Myself Tears Touch
I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.
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Human Mourn Progress Weakness

He loves but lightly who his love can tell.

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