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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.

Ovid

My vengeance is my guilt.
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Guilt One Liner Vengeance
Blemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven; darkness makes any woman fair.
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Darkness Fair Fault Forgiveness Night Woman
Hurry to your goal together. That is full bliss when man and woman lie equally conquered.
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Bliss Conquer Equality Goals Hurry Togetherness Woman
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
The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.
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Calm Experience Man Sea
Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.
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Deed Human Nature Reward Value
Enhance and intensify one’s vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality.
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Beauty Enhance Reality Truth Vision
There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled.
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Alcohol Nap Refresh Stimulation
Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.
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Hard Time Healing Overcome Pain Patience
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
A man is sorry to be honest for nothing.
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Honest Man Sorry
Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.
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Ancient Born Praise Time
Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.
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Force Hollow Inspirational Persistence Stone Water
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
Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by.
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Endurance Goodness Pain Persistance
Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.
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Body Conquer Courage Motivational Strength

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