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Love and dignity cannot share the same abode.

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Even as a cow she was lovely.
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Cow Lovely
My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.
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Hope Realized
All love is vanquished by a succeeding love.
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Love Vanish
He who can believe himself well, will be well.
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Believe Himself Inspirational
Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love.
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Courage Happiness Love
In our play we reveal what kind of people we are.
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Character People Play Reveal
Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.
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Force Hollow Inspirational Persistence Stone Water
There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled.
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Alcohol Nap Refresh Stimulation
What we have been, or now are, we shall not be tomorrow.
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Change Tomorrow
I attempt an arduous task; but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement.
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Achievement Attempt Difficult Task Worth
Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked.
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Delight Refuse Same Women
Tears at times have the weight of speech.
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Speech Tears Time Weight
Often the prickly thorn produces tender roses.
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Inspirational Rose Tender Thorn
Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.
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Health Medicine Pain Snatch
We believe slowly when belief brings pain.
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Belief Believe Pain Slow
He who has lived in obscurity has lived well.
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Live Onscurity
Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.
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Broke Chain Happiness Hurt Let Ho Man Mind Worry
Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.
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Always Cast Chance Expectation Fish Powerful
The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses.
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Deep Delicate Inspirational Produce Rose Sharp
He loved a lifeless thing and he was utterly and hopelessly wretched.
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Hopeless Life Love Wretch
Poetry comes fine-spun from a mind at peace.
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Mind Peace Poetry
Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.
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Deed Human Nature Reward Value
Habits change into character.
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Character Deep Habit One Liner
Enhance and intensify one’s vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality.
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Beauty Enhance Reality Truth Vision
And besides, we lovers fear everything.
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Fear Lover One Liner
Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.
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Appointment Patience Time
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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Death Delicate Ideas Kill Man Sneer Yawn

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