I treat my heart like a sick child and gratify its every fancy
("The Sorrows of Young Werther")
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I placed my trust in gold and wealth.
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A thinking mans greatest pleasure is to have searched for the knowable, and to have stood in awe before the unknowable.
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You must either conquer and rule or serve and lose, suffer or triumph, be the anvil or the hammer
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In truth, I hope myself unstain'd,
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