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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.

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I desire that death find me ready and writing, or if it please Christ, praying and intears.
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Death Desire Finding Myself Ready
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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Love Memories Sweet
It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.
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Born Merit Throne
Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
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Greatness Togetherness
How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
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Earth Fortune
When the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified.
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Animal Cat Death Poet
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Cure Disgust Mother
The greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts.
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Effort Greatness Myself
For though I am a body of this earth, my firm desire is born from the stars.
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Body Desire Earth Myself Stars
Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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Book Leadership Learning Madness
All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
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Dreaming Pass Pleasure World
Love is the crowning grace of humanity.
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Crown Grace Humanity Love One Liner
He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
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Himself Light Love
Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
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Health One Liner Sick Vice Virtue
The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
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Beginning Doubt End One Liner
Nothing mortal is enduring, and there is nothing sweet which does not presently end in bitterness.
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Bitterness Endurance Mortal Present

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