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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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Man has not a greater enemy than himself.
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Enemy Greatness Himself Man
Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another’s woe.
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Earth Enemy Heart
I desire that death find me ready and writing, or if it please Christ, praying and intears.
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Death Desire Finding Myself Ready
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
Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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Error Men Mind
All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
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Dreaming Pass Pleasure World
While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.
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Body Hands Life Thinking
Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
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Easy One Liner Suspect
Continued work and application form my soul’s nourishment. So soon as I commenced to rest and relax I should cease to live.
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Application Live Myself Nourishment Soul Work
A good death does honour to a whole life.
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Death Goodness Life
For virtue only finds eternal Fame.
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Fame Finding Forever Virtue
The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
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Age Difference Love Practice Relationship
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
Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
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Effort Enough Longing
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
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
Death had his grudge against me, and he got up in the way, like an armed robber, with a pike in his hand.
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Death Grudge Hands Himself
Do you suppose there is any living man so unreasonable that if he found himself stricken with a dangerous ailment he would not anxiously desire to regain the blessing of health?
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Blessing Dangerous Health Live Man Reason Yourself
Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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Foe Names Reality
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
Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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Greatness Man Mindset Mistake
Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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Enemy Famous Name One Liner Reality
Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good.
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Crown Forever Goodness Grace Heart Humanity Life Love Principle Right Soul Truth
Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
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Greatness Togetherness
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
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Calculation Love
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Cure Disgust Mom
Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
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Cancer Friendship One Liner Suspicious

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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