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Death had his grudge against me, and he got up in the way, like an armed robber, with a pike in his hand.
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Death Grudge Hands Himself
An equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.
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Equality Peace Time Wings
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Cure Disgust Mother
Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.
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Elegant Empty Language Production
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
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
I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.
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Goodness Known Love Pursue Worst
Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence; and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe.
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Absence Beginning Breathe Myself Soul
Nothing mortal is enduring, and there is nothing sweet which does not presently end in bitterness.
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Bitterness Endurance Mortal Present
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
How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
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Bark Difficult Ignorance Save
How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
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Earth Fortune
Where you are is of no moment, but only what you are doing there. It is not the place that ennobles you, but you the place, and this only by doing that which is great and noble.
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Greatness Moments Noble Place Yourself
Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another’s woe.
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Earth Enemy Heart
The greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts.
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Effort Greatness Myself

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