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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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I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
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Myself Pride
For virtue only finds eternal Fame.
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Fame Finding Forever Virtue
And tears are heard within the harp I touch.
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Music Myself Tears Touch
I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.
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Human Mourn Progress Weakness
I looked back at the summit of the mountain, which seemed but a cubit high in comparison with the height of human contemplation, were in not too often merged in the corruptions of the earth.
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Comparison Earth Mountain Myself
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
Love is the crowning grace of humanity.
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Crown Grace Humanity Love One Liner
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
Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
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Cancer Friendship One Liner Suspicious
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
It is better to will the good than to know the truth.
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Better Goodness Known Willing
Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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Greatness Man Mindset Mistake
How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
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Earth Fortune
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
Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief.
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Argument Grief Himself
The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
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Beginning Doubt End One Liner

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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