What is harder than rock, or softer than water? Yet soft water hollows out hard rock. Persevere.
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Blemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven; darkness makes any woman fair.
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A man is sorry to be honest for nothing.
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Poetry comes fine-spun from a mind at peace.
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Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.
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Make the workmanship surpass the materials.
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There are a thousand forms of evil; there will be a thousand remedies.
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Our native land charms us with inexpressible sweetness, and never, never allows us to forget that we belong to it.
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There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled.
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A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man’s brow.
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You will go most safely by the middle way.
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What we have been, or now are, we shall not be tomorrow.
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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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I flee who chases me and chase who flees me.
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Often the prickly thorn produces tender roses.
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First appearance deceives many.
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Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love.
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Little things please little minds.
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In our leisure we reveal what kind of people we are.
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We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.
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Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.
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Greatly he failed, but he had greatly dared.
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Venus is kind to creatures as young as we; We know not what we do, and while we’re young We have the right to live and love like gods.
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Love and dignity cannot share the same abode.
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Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.
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If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.
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I am a shipwrecked man who fears every sea.
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