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A man is sorry to be honest for nothing.
OvidOvid Dignity and love do not blend well, nor do they continue long together.
OvidOvid Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.
OvidOvid Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.
OvidOvid Time is generally the best doctor.
OvidOvid It’s a kindness that the mind can go where it wishes.
OvidOvid Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love.
OvidOvid Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.
OvidOvid And besides, we lovers fear everything.
OvidOvid He who can believe himself well, will be well.
OvidOvid In our leisure we reveal what kind of people we are.
OvidOvid Sometimes tears carry the same weight as words.
OvidOvid Nothing is stronger than habit.
OvidOvid Poetry comes fine-spun from a mind at peace.
OvidOvid Often the prickly thorn produces tender roses.
OvidOvid I am a shipwrecked man who fears every sea.
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Teresa PeresTeresa Peres We parted sadly, like children in the street on a pleasant june afternoon.
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This is beautiful indeed; the colored people have given this to the head of the government, and that government once sanctioned laws that would not permit its people to learn enough to enable them to read this book.
Sojourner TruthSojourner Truth People are beautifully made just like flowers in the garden!
Mwanandeke KindemboMwanandeke Kindembo Nature, like a loving mother, is ever trying to keep land and sea, mountain and valley, each in its place, to hush the angry winds and waves, balance the extremes of heat and cold, of rain and drought, that peace, harmony and beauty may reign supreme.
Elizabeth Cady StantonElizabeth Cady Stanton The beauty and magic is always in the effort. Today, give yourself some credit for meeting the universe half way.
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Ibn TaymiyyahIbn Taymiyyah Love is beautiful only when you are secretly loved by a stranger.
Mwanandeke KindemboMwanandeke Kindembo The beauty of You delights me. The sight of You amazes me. For the Pearl does this… and the Ocean does that.
HafezHafez Darling, our story was a beautifully tragic thing. Magical as it happened unbearable when it ended.
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