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My flowery and green age was passing away, and I feeling a chill in the fires had been wasting my heart, for I was drawing near the hillside above the grave.

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I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.
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Human Mourn Progress Weakness
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
It is better to will the good than to know the truth.
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Better Goodness Known Willing
Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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Enemy Famous Name One Liner Reality
Events appear sad, pleasant, or painful, not because they are so in reality, but because we believe them to be so and the light in which we look at them depends upon our own judgment.
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Appearance Judgement Ourselves Pain Reality Sadness
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
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Cure Disgust Mother
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
I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.
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Goodness Known Love Pursue Worst
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
For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
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Comfort Death Need Right
A good death does honour to a whole life.
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Death Goodness Life
Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
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Greatness Togetherness
Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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Overcome Ruthless Strive
An equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.
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Equality Peace Time Wings
Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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Endurance Perseverance Strive

My flowery and green age was passing away, and I feeling a chill in the fires had been wasting my heart, for I was drawing near the hillside above the grave.

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