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I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.

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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
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Cure Disgust Mom
Man has no greater enemy than himself. I have acted contrary to my sentiments and inclination; throughout our whole lives we do what we never intended, and what we proposed to do, we leave undone.
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Enemy Greatness Man Propose
Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
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Easy One Liner Suspect
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
You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
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Leaving Myself Way Yourself
Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
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Effort Enough Longing
I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.
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Human Mourn Progress Weakness
Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
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Greatness Togetherness
He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
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Himself Light 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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Love Memories Sweet
How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
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Earth Fortune
Hope is incredible to the slave of grief.
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Grief Hope Incredible Slave
My flowery and green age was passing away, and I feeling a chill in the fires had been wasting my heart, for I was drawing near the hillside above the grave.
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Age Chill Draw Feeling Flower Green Myself
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
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Cure Disgust Mother

I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.

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