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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.

Petrarch

Hitherto your eyes have been darkened and you have looked too much, yes, far too much, upon the things of earth. If these so much delight you what shall be your rapture when you lift your gaze to things eternal!
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Darkness Earth Eyes Forever Sight Yourself
When the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified.
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Animal Cat Death Poet
And tears are heard within the harp I touch.
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Music Myself Tears Touch
From thought to thought, from mountain peak to mountain. Love leads me on; for I can never still My trouble on the world’s well beaten ways.
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Leadership Love Mountain Myself Thinking Well World
For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
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Comfort Death Need Right
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
Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
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Easy One Liner Suspect
Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
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Health One Liner Sick Vice Virtue
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
All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
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Dreaming Pass Pleasure World
A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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Cutting Desire Inspirational
Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.
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Elegant Empty Language Production
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
Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief.
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Argument Grief Himself
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Cure Disgust Mom
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

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