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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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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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Cry Grief Heaven Lying
Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
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Greatness Togetherness
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
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
Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another’s woe.
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Earth Enemy Heart
Often have I wondered with much curiosity as to our coming into this world and what will follow our departure.
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Curiosity Follow Wonder World
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

Love Memories Sweet
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Cure Disgust Mom
Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.
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Death Dreams End Sleep Wake Up
Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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Endurance Perseverance Strive
All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
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Dreaming Pass Pleasure World
Events appear sad, pleasant, or painful, not because they are so in reality, but because we believe them to be so and the light in which we look at them depends upon our own judgment.
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Appearance Judgement Ourselves Pain Reality Sadness
The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
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Age Difference Love Practice Relationship
How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
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Earth Fortune
I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.
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Human Mourn Progress Weakness
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.
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Greatness Grief Light Live Love Myself

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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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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