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I saw the tracks of angels in the earth: the beauty of heaven walking by itself on the world.

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Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
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Health One Liner Sick Vice Virtue
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
It is better to will the good than to know the truth.
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Better Goodness Known Willing
Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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Enemy Famous Name One Liner Reality
Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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Foe Names Reality
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 Merit Throne
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
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Calculation Love
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
Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
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Greatness Togetherness
How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
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Earth Fortune
A good death does honour to a whole life.
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Death Goodness Life
Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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Endurance Perseverance Strive
For style beyond the genius never dares.
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Beyond Dare Genius Style
I saw the tracks of angels in the earth: the beauty of heaven walking by itself on the world.
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Angel Beautiful Earth Walk World
I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
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Myself Pride
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

I saw the tracks of angels in the earth: the beauty of heaven walking by itself on the world.

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