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An equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.

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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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Greatness Man Mindset Mistake
Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another’s woe.
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Earth Enemy Heart
An equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.
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Equality Peace Time Wings
I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
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Myself Pride
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
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
Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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Error Men Mind
For virtue only finds eternal Fame.
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Fame Finding Forever 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
Life in itself is short enough, but the physicians with their art, know to their amusement, how to make it still shorter.
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Amusement Enough Life Short
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
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Calculation Love
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
For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
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Comfort Death Need Right
How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
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Bark Difficult Ignorance Save
There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
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Agreement Burden Light Pen Poet
When the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified.
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Animal Cat Death Poet

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