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I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.

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The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
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Age Difference Love Practice Relationship
It is better to will the good than to know the truth.
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Better Goodness Known Willing
The time will come when every change shall cease, This quick revolving wheel shall rest in peace: No summer then shall glow, not winter freeze; Nothing shall be to come, and nothing past, But an eternal now shall ever last.
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Change Forever Glow Last Quick Time
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
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Calculation Love
Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another’s woe.
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Earth Enemy Heart
Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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Enemy Famous Name One Liner Reality
For though I am a body of this earth, my firm desire is born from the stars.
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Body Desire Earth Myself Stars
Nothing mortal is enduring, and there is nothing sweet which does not presently end in bitterness.
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Bitterness Endurance Mortal Present
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
For virtue only finds eternal Fame.
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Fame Finding Forever Virtue
I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
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Born Ourselves Preference Time
And tears are heard within the harp I touch.
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Music Myself Tears Touch
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
Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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Book Leadership Learning Madness
Hitherto your eyes have been darkened and you have looked too much, yes, far too much, upon the things of earth. If these so much delight you what shall be your rapture when you lift your gaze to things eternal!
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Darkness Earth Eyes Forever Sight Yourself
For style beyond the genius never dares.
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Beyond Dare Genius Style

I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.

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