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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.

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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
Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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Endurance Perseverance Strive
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
Hitherto your eyes have been darkened and you have looked too much, yes, far too much, upon the things of earth. If these so much delight you what shall be your rapture when you lift your gaze to things eternal!
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Darkness Earth Eyes Forever Sight Yourself
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
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 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
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
It is better to will the good than to know the truth.
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Better Goodness Known Willing
There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
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Agreement Burden Light Pen Poet
Man has not a greater enemy than himself.
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Enemy Greatness Himself Man
Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
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Greatness Togetherness
Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.
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Elegant Empty Language Production
While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.
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Body Hands Life Thinking
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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