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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.

Petrarch

The time will come when every change shall cease, This quick revolving wheel shall rest in peace: No summer then shall glow, not winter freeze; Nothing shall be to come, and nothing past, But an eternal now shall ever last.
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Change Forever Glow Last Quick Time
While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.
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Body Hands Life Thinking
I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.
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Goodness Known Love Pursue Worst
Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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Error Men Mind
Life in itself is short enough, but the physicians with their art, know to their amusement, how to make it still shorter.
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Amusement Enough Life Short
A good death does honour to a whole life.
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Death Goodness Life
For style beyond the genius never dares.
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Beyond Dare Genius Style
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
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Calculation Love
An equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.
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Equality Peace Time Wings
Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief.
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Argument Grief Himself
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
The greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts.
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Effort Greatness Myself
Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another’s woe.
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Earth Enemy Heart
Do you suppose there is any living man so unreasonable that if he found himself stricken with a dangerous ailment he would not anxiously desire to regain the blessing of health?
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Blessing Dangerous Health Live Man Reason Yourself
Man has not a greater enemy than himself.
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Enemy Greatness Himself Man
For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
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Comfort Death Need Right

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