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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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For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
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Comfort Death Need Right
Go, grieving rimes of mine, to that hard stone Whereunder lies my darling, lies my dear, And cry to her to speak from heaven’s sphere.
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Cry Grief Heaven Lying
How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
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Bark Difficult Ignorance Save
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
Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
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Cancer Friendship One Liner Suspicious
Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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Greatness Man Mindset Mistake
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 know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.
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Goodness Known Love Pursue Worst
How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
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Bliss Follow Old Quick
The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
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Age Difference Love Practice Relationship
He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
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Himself Light Love
Continued work and application form my soul’s nourishment. So soon as I commenced to rest and relax I should cease to live.
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Application Live Myself Nourishment Soul Work
Five enemies of peace inhabit with us – avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.
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Ambition Enemy Enjoyment Jealous Peace
How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
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Earth Fortune
I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
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Born Ourselves Preference Time
The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
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Beginning Doubt End One Liner

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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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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