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My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.

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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
In our leisure we reveal what kind of people we are.
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Character Leisure People Reveal
It is the poor man who’ll ever count his flock.
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Count Man Poor
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
Take rest; a field that has rested gives a beautiful crop.
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Beautiful Crop Field Healing Rest
By yielding you may obtain victory.
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One Liner Victory Yield
The lamp burns bright when wick and oil are clean.
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Bright Burn Clean Lamp Wicked
We believe slowly when belief brings pain.
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Belief Believe Pain Slow
Death is less bitter punishment than death’s delay.
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Death Deep Delay Punishment
Even as a cow she was lovely.
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Cow Lovely
Our native land charms us with inexpressible sweetness, and never, never allows us to forget that we belong to it.
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Charm Country Forget
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
Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.
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Force Hollow Inspirational Persistence Stone Water
First appearance deceives many.
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Appearance Business Deceive
Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion.
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Courage Men Passion Wine

My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.

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