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In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare!
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Beauty One Liner Rare Wisdom Youth
Many shining actions owe their success to chance, though the general or statesman receive the applause.
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Action Applause Chance General Receive Shine Success
There is the heat of Love, the pulsing rush of Longing, the lover’s whisper, irresistible – magic to make the sanest man go mad.
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Heat Irresistible Love Lover Mad Magic Man Rush Whisper
The journey is the thing.
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Journey Life One Liner Struggle Success
Come then, put away your sword in its sheath, and let us two go up into my bed so that, lying together in the bed of love, we may then have faith and trust in each other.
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Bed Each Other Faith Love Sword Togetherness Trust
He knew how to say many false things that were like true sayings.
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Human Nature Lie Truth
To speak his thoughts is every freeman’s right, in peace and war, in council and in fight.
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Council Fight Frredom Men Peace Right Speak War
Urge him with truth to frame his fair replies And sure he will for Wisdom never lies.
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Frame Lie Sure Truth Urge Wisdom
We men are wretched things.
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Men One Liner Wretch
Even a fool learns something once it hits him.
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Fools Hit Learning One Liner
Scepticism is as much the result of knowledge, as knowledge is of scepticism.
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Knowledge Result
There is nothing alive more agonized than man / of all that breathe and crawl across the earth.
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Alive Breathe Crawl Earth Man
Goddess of song, teach me the story of a hero.
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Goodness Hero Song Story Teaching
Hateful to me as are the gates of hell, Is he who, hiding one thing in his heart, Utters another.
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Gate Hate Heart Hell Hide
It behooves a father to be blameless if he expects his child to be.
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Blame Children Expect Father
Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this.
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Heart Worst

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