"Give me Thy light, and fix my eyes on Thee!"
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"I who once wrote songs with keen delight am now by sorrow driven to take up melancholy measures. Wounded Muses tell me what I must write, and elegiac verses bathe my face with real tears. Not even terror could drive from me these faithful companions of my long journey. Poetry, which was once the glory of my happy and flourishing youth, is still my comfort in this misery of my old age."
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"I scarcely know the meaning of your question; much less can I answer it."
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"In other living creatures the ignorance of themselves is nature, but in men it is a vice."
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"He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate ... can look fortune in the face."
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