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Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another’s woe.

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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
He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
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Himself Light 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
I looked back at the summit of the mountain, which seemed but a cubit high in comparison with the height of human contemplation, were in not too often merged in the corruptions of the earth.
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Comparison Earth Mountain Myself
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
Hope is incredible to the slave of grief.
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Grief Hope Incredible Slave
I saw the tracks of angels in the earth: the beauty of heaven walking by itself on the world.
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Angel Beautiful Earth Walk World
For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
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Comfort Death Need Right
Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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Endurance Perseverance Strive
For style beyond the genius never dares.
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Beyond Dare Genius Style
You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
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Leaving Myself Way Yourself
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
It is better to will the good than to know the truth.
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Better Goodness Known Willing
Man has not a greater enemy than himself.
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Enemy Greatness Himself Man
The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
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Age Difference Love Practice Relationship
Nothing mortal is enduring, and there is nothing sweet which does not presently end in bitterness.
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Bitterness Endurance Mortal Present

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