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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
Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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Endurance Perseverance Strive
How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
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Earth Fortune
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
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
Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief.
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Argument Grief Himself
All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
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Dreaming Pass Pleasure World
For style beyond the genius never dares.
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Beyond Dare Genius Style
Man has not a greater enemy than himself.
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Enemy Greatness Himself Man
Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.
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Elegant Empty Language Production
Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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Error Men Mind
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Cure Disgust Mother
And men go about to wonder at the heights of the mountains, and the mighty waves of the sea, and the wide sweep of rivers, and the circuit of the ocean, and the revolution of the stars, but themselves they consider not.
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Height Man Mountain Revolution Stars Wonder
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
While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.
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Body Hands Life Thinking
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

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