Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.

It is the poor man who’ll ever count his flock.
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Count Man Poor
It’s right to learn, even from the enemy.
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Enemy Learn One Liner
Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.
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Health Medicine Pain Snatch
People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.
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Claim Confidence Magnitude People
Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.
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Endurance Prove Sorrow
I am dragged along by a strange new force. Desire and reason are pulling in different directions. I see the right way and approve it, but follow the wrong.
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Approve Desire Direction Follow Force Reason Strange Wrong
Beauty is a fragile gift.
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Beauty Fragile Gift One Liner
Fair peace becomes men; ferocious anger belongs to beasts.
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Anger Beast Fair Peace
Habits change into character.
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Character Deep Habit One Liner
First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, ‘I believe,’ three times.
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Arise Believe Morning Positive
I am a shipwrecked man who fears every sea.
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Fear Man Sea
Love will enter cloaked in friendship’s name.
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Cloak Enter Friendship Love Name One Liner
The cause is hidden. The effect is visible to all.
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Cause Effect Hide Visible
My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.
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Hope Realized
He who has lived in obscurity has lived well.
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Live Onscurity
What we have been, or now are, we shall not be tomorrow.
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Change Tomorrow

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