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And tears are heard within the harp I touch.

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For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
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Comfort Death Need Right
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
For virtue only finds eternal Fame.
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Fame Finding Forever Virtue
Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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Greatness Man Mindset Mistake
Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
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Easy One Liner Suspect
Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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Endurance Perseverance Strive
A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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Cutting Desire Inspirational
Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
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Cancer Friendship One Liner Suspicious
A good death does honour to a whole life.
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Death Goodness Life
It may be only glory that we seek here, but I persuade myself that, as long as we remain here, that is right. Another glory awaits us in heaven and he who reaches there will not wish even to think of earthly fame.
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Fame Glory Heaven Myself Seek Thinking
Hope is incredible to the slave of grief.
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Grief Hope Incredible Slave
Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence; and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe.
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Absence Beginning Breathe Myself Soul
I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
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Myself Pride
The greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts.
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Effort Greatness Myself
Alack our life, so beautiful to see, With how much ease life losest, in a day, What many years with pain and toil amassed!
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Beautiful Life Pain
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
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Calculation Love

And tears are heard within the harp I touch.

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