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Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.

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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
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
The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
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Beginning Doubt End One Liner
I saw the tracks of angels in the earth: the beauty of heaven walking by itself on the world.
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Angel Beautiful Earth Walk World
From thought to thought, from mountain peak to mountain. Love leads me on; for I can never still My trouble on the world’s well beaten ways.
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Leadership Love Mountain Myself Thinking Well World
All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
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Dreaming Pass Pleasure World
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Cure Disgust Mother
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
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
For style beyond the genius never dares.
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Beyond Dare Genius Style
I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
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Born Ourselves Preference Time
Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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Foe Names Reality
I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.
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Human Mourn Progress Weakness
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
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
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Calculation Love
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

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