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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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Hope is incredible to the slave of grief.
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Grief Hope Incredible Slave
You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
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Leaving Myself Way Yourself
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
Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.
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Elegant Empty Language Production
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
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
A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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Cutting Desire Inspirational
Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
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Greatness Togetherness
Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another’s woe.
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Earth Enemy Heart
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Cure Disgust Mother
The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
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Beginning Doubt End One Liner
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
For virtue only finds eternal Fame.
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Fame Finding Forever Virtue
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
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 Fortune Honor Oneself Respect

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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