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Forgive me, Spirit of my spirit, for this, that I have found it easier to read the mystery told in tears and understood Thee better in sorrow than in joy.

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Our hearts were drunk with a beauty Our eyes could never see.

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Any relations in a social order will endure, if there is infused into them some of that spirit of human sympathy which qualifies life for immortality.

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Seek on earth what you have found in heaven.

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We may fight against what is wrong, but if we allow ourselves to hate, that is to insure our spiritual defeat and our likeness to what we hate.

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Let guilty men remember, their black deeds Do lean on crutches made of slender reeds.

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I know death hath ten thousand several doors For men to take their exits.

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Vain ambition of kings Who seek by trophies and dead things To leave a living name behind, And weave but nets to catch the wind.

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The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.

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There's nothing sooner dry than women's tears.

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DUCHESS: Diamonds are of most value, They say, that have past through most jewellers' hands. FERDINAND: Whores, by that rule, are precious.

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Cowardly dogs bark loudest.

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Fortune's a right whore. If she give ought, she deals it in small parcels, that she may take away all at one swoop.

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With such a pity men preserve alive Pheasants and quails, when they are no fat enough to be eaten.

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Prosperity doth bewitch men, seeming clear; As seas do laugh, show white, when rocks are near.

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One evening I sat Beauty on my knees - And I found her bitter - And I reviled her.

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I is another.

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Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.

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But, truly, I have wept too much! The Dawns are heartbreaking. Every moon is atrocious and every sun bitter.

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I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain.

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