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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.

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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
It is better to will the good than to know the truth.
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Better Goodness Known Willing
It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.
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Born Merit Throne
For style beyond the genius never dares.
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Beyond Dare Genius Style
Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another’s woe.
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Earth Enemy Heart
How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
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Bliss Follow Old Quick
There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
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Agreement Burden Light Pen Poet
Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief
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Argument Grief Refine
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
I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.
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Human Mourn Progress Weakness
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
Often have I wondered with much curiosity as to our coming into this world and what will follow our departure.
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Curiosity Follow Wonder World
Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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Foe Names Reality
How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
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Earth Fortune
It may be only glory that we seek here, but I persuade myself that, as long as we remain here, that is right. Another glory awaits us in heaven and he who reaches there will not wish even to think of earthly fame.
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Fame Glory Heaven Myself Seek Thinking
To begin with myself, then, the utterances of men concerning me will differ widely, since in passing judgment almost every one is influenced not so much by truth as by preference, and good and evil report alike know no bounds.
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Beginning Bound Difference Influence Man Myself

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