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Who naught suspects is easily deceived.

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The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
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Age Difference Love Practice Relationship
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
Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
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Effort Enough Longing
Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another’s woe.
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Earth Enemy Heart
All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
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Dreaming Pass Pleasure World
He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
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Himself Light Love
An equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.
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Equality Peace Time Wings
Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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Enemy Famous Name One Liner Reality
Books can warm the heart with friendly words and counsel, entering into a close relationship with us which is articulate and alive.
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Alive Book Friendship Heart Relationship Warm
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
And I live on, but in grief and self-contempt, Left here without the light I loved so much, In a great tempest and with shrouds unkempt.
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Greatness Grief Light Live Love Myself
You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
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Leaving Myself Way Yourself
It is better to will the good than to know the truth.
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Better Goodness Known Willing
For virtue only finds eternal Fame.
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Fame Finding Forever Virtue
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
Where you are is of no moment, but only what you are doing there. It is not the place that ennobles you, but you the place, and this only by doing that which is great and noble.
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Greatness Moments Noble Place Yourself

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