The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses.

There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
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Anxiety Pleasure Pure
Love is a thing that is full of cares and fears.
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Care Fear Love
Anything cracked will shatter at a touch.
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Crack One Liner Shatter Touch Weakness
You will go most safely by the middle way.
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Business Safe Work
My vengeance is my guilt.
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Blemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven; darkness makes any woman fair.
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Darkness Fair Fault Forgiveness Night Woman
We believe slowly when belief brings pain.
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Belief Believe Pain Slow
Nothing is stronger than habit.
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Habit One Liner Strong
We need to accept the strangeness of things as they are.
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Acceptance Strange
My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.
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Hope Realized
The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.
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Calm Experience Man Sea
Habits change into character.
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Character Deep Habit One Liner
I grabbed a pile of dust, and holding it up, foolishly asked for as many birthdays as the grains of dust, I forgot to ask that they be years of youth.
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Birthday Dust Grains Youth
In our play we reveal what kind of people we are.
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Character People Play Reveal
In our leisure we reveal what kind of people we are.
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Character Leisure People Reveal
Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.
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