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• I saw the tracks of angels in the earth: the beauty of heaven walking by itself on the world.
• A good death does honour to a whole life.
• Events appear sad, pleasant, or painful, not because they are so in reality, but because we believe them to be so and…
• And men go about to wonder at the heights of the mountains, and the mighty waves of the sea, and the wide…
• I freeze and burn, love is bitter and sweet, my sighs are tempests and my tears are floods, I am in ecstasy…
• Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.
• Gold, silver, jewels, purple garments, houses built of marble, groomed estates, pious paintings, caparisoned steeds, and other things of this kind offer…
• I had got this far, and was thinking of what to say next, and as my habit is, I was pricking the…
• How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
• And tears are heard within the harp I touch.
• Do you suppose there is any living man so unreasonable that if he found himself stricken with a dangerous ailment he would…
• Love is the crowning grace of humanity.

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