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All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.

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There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
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Agreement Burden Light Pen Poet
Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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Error Men Mind
All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
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Dreaming Pass Pleasure World
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
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Calculation Love
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
An equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.
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Equality Peace Time Wings
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
Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief.
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Argument Grief Himself
I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
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Born Ourselves Preference Time
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 desire that death find me ready and writing, or if it please Christ, praying and intears.
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Death Desire Finding Myself Ready
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
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 on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another’s woe.
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Earth Enemy Heart
Nothing mortal is enduring, and there is nothing sweet which does not presently end in bitterness.
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Bitterness Endurance Mortal Present

All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.

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