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Love is the crowning grace of humanity.

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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
The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
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Age Difference Love Practice Relationship
Alack our life, so beautiful to see, With how much ease life losest, in a day, What many years with pain and toil amassed!
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Beautiful Life Pain
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
You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
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Leaving Myself Way Yourself
Where you are is of no moment, but only what you are doing there. It is not the place that ennobles you, but you the place, and this only by doing that which is great and noble.
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Greatness Moments Noble Place Yourself
When the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified.
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Animal Cat Death Poet
Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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Book Leadership Learning Madness
Where are the numerous constructions erected by Agrippa, of which only the Pantheon remains? Where are the splendorous palaces of the emperors?
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Construction Emperor Palace
For virtue only finds eternal Fame.
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Fame Finding Forever Virtue
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
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
An equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.
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Equality Peace Time Wings
Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
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Health One Liner Sick Vice Virtue
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
Love is the crowning grace of humanity.
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Crown Grace Humanity Love One Liner

Love is the crowning grace of humanity.

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