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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.

Petrarch

Life in itself is short enough, but the physicians with their art, know to their amusement, how to make it still shorter.
PETRARCH

Amusement Enough Life Short
Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence; and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe.
PETRARCH

Absence Beginning Breathe Myself Soul
It is better to will the good than to know the truth.
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Better Goodness Known Willing
A good death does honour to a whole life.
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Death Goodness Life
Often have I wondered with much curiosity as to our coming into this world and what will follow our departure.
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Curiosity Follow Wonder World
How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
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Bliss Follow Old Quick
I have friends whose society is delightful to me; they are persons of all countries and of all ages; distinguished in war, in council, and in letters; easy to live with, always at my command.
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Command Country Delight Easy Friendship Live Myself Society
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
Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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Error Men Mind
For style beyond the genius never dares.
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Beyond Dare Genius Style
Hope is incredible to the slave of grief.
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Grief Hope Incredible Slave
He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
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Himself Light Love
Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief
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Argument Grief Refine
I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.
PETRARCH

Human Mourn Progress Weakness
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

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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