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What name to call thee by, O virgin fair, I know not, for thy looks are not of earth And more than mortal seems thy countenances.

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A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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Desire Ourselves Rich
The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
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Age Difference Love Practice Relationship
Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.
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Death Dreams End Sleep Wake Up
Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
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Health One Liner Sick Vice Virtue
A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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Cutting Desire Inspirational
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
While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.
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Body Hands Life Thinking
I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
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Born Ourselves Preference Time
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
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
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Calculation Love
Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief.
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Argument Grief Himself
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
Love is the crowning grace of humanity.
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Crown Grace Humanity Love One Liner
From thought to thought, from mountain peak to mountain. Love leads me on; for I can never still My trouble on the world’s well beaten ways.
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Leadership Love Mountain Myself Thinking Well World
It may be only glory that we seek here, but I persuade myself that, as long as we remain here, that is right. Another glory awaits us in heaven and he who reaches there will not wish even to think of earthly fame.
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Fame Glory Heaven Myself Seek Thinking
Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another’s woe.
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Earth Enemy Heart

What name to call thee by, O virgin fair, I know not, for thy looks are not of earth And more than mortal seems thy countenances.

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What name to call thee by, O virgin fair, I know not, for thy looks are not of earth And more than mortal seems thy countenances.

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