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Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief

Petrarch

Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Cure Disgust Mother
Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another’s woe.
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Earth Enemy Heart
How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
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Bliss Follow Old Quick
For virtue only finds eternal Fame.
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Fame Finding Forever Virtue
He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
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Himself Light Love
Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
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Effort Enough Longing
Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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Book Leadership Learning Madness
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
I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
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Myself Pride
I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
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Born Ourselves Preference Time
When the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified.
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Animal Cat Death Poet
The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
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Age Difference Love Practice Relationship
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
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
An equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.
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Equality Peace Time Wings
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

Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief

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