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For though I am a body of this earth, my firm desire is born from the stars.

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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
Hope is incredible to the slave of grief.
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Grief Hope Incredible Slave
Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
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Health One Liner Sick Vice 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
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
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
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Calculation Love
Death had his grudge against me, and he got up in the way, like an armed robber, with a pike in his hand.
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Death Grudge Hands Himself
I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
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Myself Pride
And tears are heard within the harp I touch.
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Music Myself Tears Touch
Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
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Effort Enough Longing
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
Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
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Easy One Liner Suspect
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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Love Memories Sweet
Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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Greatness Man Mindset Mistake
While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.
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Body Hands Life Thinking
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

For though I am a body of this earth, my firm desire is born from the stars.

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