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

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And I live on, but in grief and self-contempt, Left here without the light I loved so much, In a great tempest and with shrouds unkempt.
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Greatness Grief Light Live Love Myself
All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
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Dreaming Pass Pleasure World
I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.
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Goodness Known Love Pursue Worst
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
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
There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
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Agreement Burden Light Pen Poet
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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Earth Known Moral Myself Name
Do you suppose there is any living man so unreasonable that if he found himself stricken with a dangerous ailment he would not anxiously desire to regain the blessing of health?
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Blessing Dangerous Health Live Man Reason Yourself
A good death does honour to a whole life.
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Death Goodness Life
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
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Calculation Love
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
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Cure Disgust Mom
I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
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Myself Pride
Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good.
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Crown Forever Goodness Grace Heart Humanity Life Love Principle Right Soul Truth
Man has not a greater enemy than himself.
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Enemy Greatness Himself Man
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Cure Disgust Mother

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

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