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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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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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Error Men Mind
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
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
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Calculation Love
Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
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Effort Enough Longing
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
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
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
Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
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Cancer Friendship One Liner Suspicious
All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
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Dreaming Pass Pleasure World
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
I have friends whose society is delightful to me; they are persons of all countries and of all ages; distinguished in war, in council, and in letters; easy to live with, always at my command.
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Command Country Delight Easy Friendship Live Myself Society
I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.
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Human Mourn Progress Weakness
Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
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Health One Liner Sick Vice Virtue
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Cure Disgust Mom
A good death does honour to a whole life.
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Death Goodness Life
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

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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