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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

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 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
A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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Desire Ourselves Rich
The greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts.
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Effort Greatness Myself
Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief
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Argument Grief Refine
Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
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Health One Liner Sick Vice Virtue
A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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Cutting Desire Inspirational
Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
PETRARCH

Book Leadership Learning Madness
And tears are heard within the harp I touch.
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Music Myself Tears Touch
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
Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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Endurance Perseverance Strive
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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Himself Light Love
Hope is incredible to the slave of grief.
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Grief Hope Incredible Slave
I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
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Myself Pride
I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
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Born Ourselves Preference Time

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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