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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

Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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Foe Names Reality
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
The greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts.
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Effort Greatness Myself
What name to call thee by, O virgin fair, I know not, for thy looks are not of earth And more than mortal seems thy countenances.
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Earth Known Moral Myself Name
He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
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Himself Light Love
Continued work and application form my soul’s nourishment. So soon as I commenced to rest and relax I should cease to live.
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Application Live Myself Nourishment Soul Work
All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
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Dreaming Pass Pleasure World
For virtue only finds eternal Fame.
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Fame Finding Forever Virtue
Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
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Cancer Friendship One Liner Suspicious
Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
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Health One Liner Sick Vice Virtue
How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
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Earth Fortune
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
Love is the crowning grace of humanity.
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Crown Grace Humanity Love One Liner
Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief.
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Argument Grief Himself
How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
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Bliss Follow Old Quick

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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