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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

Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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Greatness Man Mindset Mistake
A good death does honour to a whole life.
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Death Goodness Life
And tears are heard within the harp I touch.
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Music Myself Tears Touch
An equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.
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Equality Peace Time Wings
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
Where are the numerous constructions erected by Agrippa, of which only the Pantheon remains? Where are the splendorous palaces of the emperors?
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Construction Emperor Palace
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
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.
PETRARCH

Greatness Grief Light Live Love Myself
Life in itself is short enough, but the physicians with their art, know to their amusement, how to make it still shorter.
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Amusement Enough Life Short
The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
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Beginning Doubt End One Liner
Continued work and application form my soul’s nourishment. So soon as I commenced to rest and relax I should cease to live.
PETRARCH

Application Live Myself Nourishment Soul Work
While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.
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Body Hands Life Thinking
Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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Foe Names Reality
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
He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
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Himself Light Love

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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