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All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.

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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
There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
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Agreement Burden Light Pen Poet
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
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
How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
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Bark Difficult Ignorance Save
The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
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Age Difference Love Practice Relationship
The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
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Beginning Doubt End One Liner
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
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Calculation Love
It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.
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Born Fortune Honor Oneself Respect
Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief.
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Argument Grief Himself
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
What name to call thee by, O virgin fair, I know not, for thy looks are not of earth And more than mortal seems thy countenances.
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Earth Known Moral Myself Name
A good death does honour to a whole life.
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Death Goodness Life
When the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified.
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Animal Cat Death Poet
How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
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Bliss Follow Old Quick

All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.

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