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Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.

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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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Bitter Burn Freeze Memories Myself Sweet
And I live on, but in grief and self-contempt, Left here without the light I loved so much, In a great tempest and with shrouds unkempt.
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Greatness Grief Light Live Love Myself
From thought to thought, from mountain peak to mountain. Love leads me on; for I can never still My trouble on the world’s well beaten ways.
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Leadership Love Mountain Myself Thinking Well World
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
Events appear sad, pleasant, or painful, not because they are so in reality, but because we believe them to be so and the light in which we look at them depends upon our own judgment.
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Appearance Judgement Ourselves Pain Reality Sadness
It is better to will the good than to know the truth.
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Better Goodness Known Willing
Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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Endurance Perseverance Strive
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
Hope is incredible to the slave of grief.
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Grief Hope Incredible Slave
Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another’s woe.
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Earth Enemy Heart
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
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
The greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts.
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Effort Greatness Myself
Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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Overcome Ruthless Strive
An equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.
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Equality Peace Time Wings
You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
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Leaving Myself Way Yourself

Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.

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