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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.
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Approve Desire Direction Follow Force Reason Strange Wrong
Often the prickly thorn produces tender roses.
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Inspirational Rose Tender Thorn
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
Anything cracked will shatter at a touch.
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Crack One Liner Shatter Touch Weakness
Make the workmanship surpass the materials.
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Material Surpass Work
All things change; nothing perishes.
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Change One Liner Perish
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
It’s right to learn, even from the enemy.
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Enemy Learn One Liner
People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.
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Claim Confidence Magnitude People
He who has lived in obscurity has lived well.
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Live Onscurity
Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.
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Health Medicine Pain Snatch
Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.
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Force Hollow Inspirational Persistence Stone Water
Love is a kind of warfare.
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Kind Love One Liner Warfare
Venus is kind to creatures as young as we; We know not what we do, and while we’re young We have the right to live and love like gods.
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Creature God Love Planet Venus Young
Blemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven; darkness makes any woman fair.
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Darkness Fair Fault Forgiveness Night Woman

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