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

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I grabbed a pile of dust, and holding it up, foolishly asked for as many birthdays as the grains of dust, I forgot to ask that they be years of youth.
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Birthday Dust Grains Youth
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
We believe slowly when belief brings pain.
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Belief Believe Pain Slow
It is convenient that there be gods, and, as it is convenient, let us believe there are.
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Believe Convenient God
By yielding you may obtain victory.
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One Liner Victory Yield
It’s a kindness that the mind can go where it wishes.
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Freedom Inspirational Kindness Mind
It’s right to learn, even from the enemy.
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Enemy Learn One Liner
He who has lived in obscurity has lived well.
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Live Onscurity
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
In the make-up of human beings, intelligence counts for more than our hands, and that is our true strength.
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Count Hands Human Being Intelligence Strength
Often the prickly thorn produces tender roses.
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Inspirational Rose Tender Thorn
A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.
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Prince Punishment Quick Reward
There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
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Anxiety Pleasure Pure
Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.
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Force Hollow Inspirational Persistence Stone Water
Fortune and love favor the brave.
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Brave Favor Fortune Inspirational Love One Liner
Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love.
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Courage Happiness Love
Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.
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Deed Human Nature Reward Value
I can live neither with you, nor without you.
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Break Up I Miss You
Greatly he failed, but he had greatly dared.
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Dare Encouragement Failure Greatness Inspirational One Liner
What we have been, or now are, we shall not be tomorrow.
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Change Tomorrow
He loved a lifeless thing and he was utterly and hopelessly wretched.
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Hopeless Life Love Wretch
Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.
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Body Conquer Courage Motivational Strength
Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.
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Return Time Waves
A man is sorry to be honest for nothing.
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Honest Man Sorry
The bold adventurer succeeds the best.
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Adventure Inspirational
He who can believe himself well, will be well.
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Believe Himself Inspirational
Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.
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Health Medicine Pain Snatch

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