Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.
PETRARCHI 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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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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The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
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Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.
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Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.
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To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
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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.
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Do you suppose there is any living man so unreasonable that if he found himself stricken with a dangerous ailment he would not anxiously desire to regain the blessing of health?
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All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
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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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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
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And tears are heard within the harp I touch.
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It may be only glory that we seek here, but I persuade myself that, as long as we remain here, that is right. Another glory awaits us in heaven and he who reaches there will not wish even to think of earthly fame.
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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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When the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified.
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