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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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It is better to will the good than to know the truth.
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Better Goodness Known Willing
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 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
How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
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Bark Difficult Ignorance Save
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 Merit Throne
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
I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
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Myself Pride
Love is the crowning grace of humanity.
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Crown Grace Humanity Love One Liner
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
He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
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Himself Light 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
I desire that death find me ready and writing, or if it please Christ, praying and intears.
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Death Desire Finding Myself Ready
Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief.
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Argument Grief Himself
A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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Cutting Desire Inspirational
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

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

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