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Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another’s woe.

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Love is the crowning grace of humanity.
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Crown Grace Humanity Love One Liner
And tears are heard within the harp I touch.
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Music Myself Tears Touch
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
When the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified.
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Animal Cat Death Poet
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
Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
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Effort Enough Longing
Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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Foe Names Reality
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
While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.
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Body Hands Life Thinking
I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.
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Goodness Known Love Pursue Worst
Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.
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Elegant Empty Language Production
I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
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Born Ourselves Preference Time
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
Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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Book Leadership Learning Madness
Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
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Cancer Friendship One Liner Suspicious

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