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The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
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Age Difference Love Practice Relationship
Often have I wondered with much curiosity as to our coming into this world and what will follow our departure.
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Curiosity Follow Wonder World
Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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Error Men Mind
Hope is incredible to the slave of grief.
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Grief Hope Incredible Slave
There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
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Agreement Burden Light Pen Poet
Love is the crowning grace of humanity.
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Crown Grace Humanity Love One Liner
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
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
Life in itself is short enough, but the physicians with their art, know to their amusement, how to make it still shorter.
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Amusement Enough Life Short
Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another’s woe.
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Earth Enemy Heart
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
Go, grieving rimes of mine, to that hard stone Whereunder lies my darling, lies my dear, And cry to her to speak from heaven’s sphere.
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Cry Grief Heaven Lying
Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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Book Leadership Learning Madness
And tears are heard within the harp I touch.
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Music Myself Tears Touch
Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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Endurance Perseverance Strive
How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
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Bark Difficult Ignorance Save

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