Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

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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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Death Delicate Ideas Kill Man Sneer Yawn
If you want to be loved, be lovable.
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Love One Liner Positive Want
Death is less bitter punishment than death’s delay.
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Death Deep Delay Punishment
Time is generally the best doctor.
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Doctor One Liner Time
My vengeance is my guilt.
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Guilt One Liner Vengeance
Love will enter cloaked in friendship’s name.
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Cloak Enter Friendship Love Name One Liner
I am a shipwrecked man who fears every sea.
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Fear Man Sea
I can live neither with you, nor without you.
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Break Up I Miss You
Eurydice, dying now a second time, uttered no complaint against her husband. What was there to complain of, but that she had been loved?
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Complain Husband Love
Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion.
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Courage Men Passion Wine
At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.
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Delay Inspirational Time Wise
First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, ‘I believe,’ three times.
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Arise Believe Morning Positive
Love is a thing that is full of cares and fears.
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Care Fear Love
Not knowing what he sees, he adores the sight; That false face fools and fuels his delight.
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Adore Delight Fools Fuel See
Beauty is a fragile gift.
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Beauty Fragile Gift One Liner
What is it that love does to a woman? Without she only sleeps; with it alone, she lives.
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Live Love She Sleep Woman
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
The lamp burns bright when wick and oil are clean.
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Bright Burn Clean Lamp Wicked
I am the poet of the poor, because I was poor when I loved; since I could not give gifts, I gave words.
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Gift Love Poet Poor Words
The burden which is well borne becomes light.
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Burden Light
There are a thousand forms of evil; there will be a thousand remedies.
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Evil Inspirational Remedy
First appearance deceives many.
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Appearance Business Deceive
It is the poor man who’ll ever count his flock.
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Count Man Poor
People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.
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Claim Confidence Magnitude People
It’s right to learn, even from the enemy.
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Enemy Learn One Liner
By yielding you may obtain victory.
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One Liner Victory Yield
He who can believe himself well, will be well.
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Believe Himself Inspirational

Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

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