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1296. What is my Heart good for ? It is good for nothing else but to devour me when I am musing alone.

1297. Fallen into the company of this foolish Heart that knoweth not to preserve its self-respect by forgetting him, I have myself forgotten my dignity.

1298. My life of a Heart thinketh it a disgrace to our own selves if we humiliate the beloved : and so it is always partial to him.

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1299. Who will support a man in his grief, if the Heart of his beloved itself refuseth him help ?

1300. When my own heart is not on my side,^[1] is it a wonder that strangers^[2] care not at all for me ?

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1. i. e. by taking her part when she is in the sulks.
2. i.e. his wife.