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You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.

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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
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Bark Difficult Ignorance Save
An equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.
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Equality Peace Time Wings
Nothing mortal is enduring, and there is nothing sweet which does not presently end in bitterness.
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Bitterness Endurance Mortal Present
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Cure Disgust Mom
For virtue only finds eternal Fame.
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Fame Finding Forever Virtue
And tears are heard within the harp I touch.
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Music Myself Tears Touch
Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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Foe Names Reality
Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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Enemy Famous Name One Liner Reality
I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.
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Human Mourn Progress Weakness
The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
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Beginning Doubt End 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
Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
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Greatness Togetherness
All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
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Dreaming Pass Pleasure 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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Love Memories Sweet
There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
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Agreement Burden Light Pen Poet

You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.

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