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He who weighs his burdens, can bear them.

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Every bird that upwards swings Bears the Cross upon its wings.
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Animal Bird Wings
Live thy life as it were spoil and pluck the joys that fly.
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Fly Joy Life Live
Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief.
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Page Stand Thief Yourself
I do not love thee, Sabidius, nor can I say why; I can only say this, “I do not love thee.”
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Love Myself
Some are good, some are middling, the most are bad.
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Bad Goodness
The flaw which is hidden is deemed greater than it is.
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Flaw Greatness Hide
You praise, in three hundred verses, Sabellus, the baths of Ponticus, who gives such excellent dinners. You wish to dine, Sabellus, not to bathe.
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Excellence Praise Verse Yourself
While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you may be nothing.
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Solution Yourself
If my opinion is of any worth, the fieldfare is the greatest delicacy among birds, the hare among quadrupeds.
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Greatness Myself Opinion Worth
Wish to be what you are, and wish for no other position.
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Original Position Yourself
What quick wit is found in sudden straits!
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Finding Quick Sudden
You ask what a nice girl will do? She won’t give an inch, but she won’t say no.
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Herself Woman
Work divided is in that manner shortened.
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Division Short Work
Such are thou and I: but what I am thou canst not be; what thou art any one of the multitude may be.
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Art Myself Yourself
However great the dish that holds the turbot, the turbot is still greater than the dish.
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Food Greatness Hold Value
It is not, believe me, the act of a wise man to say, “I will live.” To-morrow’s life is too late; live to-day.
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Believe Day Man Myself Wisdom

He who weighs his burdens, can bear them.

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