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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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How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
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Earth Fortune
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
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Calculation Love
While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.
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Body Hands Life Thinking
I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.
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Human Mourn Progress Weakness
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
Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another’s woe.
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Earth Enemy Heart
Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.
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Elegant Empty Language Production
Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
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Effort Enough Longing
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
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
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Cure Disgust Mom
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
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
You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
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Leaving Myself Way Yourself
Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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Greatness Man Mindset Mistake
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

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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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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