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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.

Petrarch

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
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
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
Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief.
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Argument Grief Himself
It is better to will the good than to know the truth.
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Better Goodness Known Willing
Love is the crowning grace of humanity.
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Crown Grace Humanity Love One Liner
The greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts.
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Effort Greatness Myself
A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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Desire Ourselves Rich
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
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
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Cure Disgust Mother
For style beyond the genius never dares.
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Beyond Dare Genius Style
And tears are heard within the harp I touch.
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Music Myself Tears Touch
Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
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Health One Liner Sick Vice Virtue
How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
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Bark Difficult Ignorance Save
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

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