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Death had his grudge against me, and he got up in the way, like an armed robber, with a pike in his hand.

Petrarch

And men go about to wonder at the heights of the mountains, and the mighty waves of the sea, and the wide sweep of rivers, and the circuit of the ocean, and the revolution of the stars, but themselves they consider not.
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Height Man Mountain Revolution Stars Wonder
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
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Calculation 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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Bitter Burn Freeze Memories Myself Sweet
A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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Desire Ourselves Rich
I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.
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Human Mourn Progress Weakness
When the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified.
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Animal Cat Death Poet
Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another’s woe.
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Earth Enemy Heart
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
Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief.
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Argument Grief Himself
Where you are is of no moment, but only what you are doing there. It is not the place that ennobles you, but you the place, and this only by doing that which is great and noble.
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Greatness Moments Noble Place Yourself
Books can warm the heart with friendly words and counsel, entering into a close relationship with us which is articulate and alive.
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Alive Book Friendship Heart Relationship Warm
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
While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.
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Body Hands Life Thinking
The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
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Age Difference Love Practice Relationship
For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
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Comfort Death Need Right
Hope is incredible to the slave of grief.
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Grief Hope Incredible Slave

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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