People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.

I can live neither with you, nor without you.
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Break Up I Miss You
Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.
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Appointment Patience Time
Take rest; a field that has rested gives a beautiful crop.
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Beautiful Crop Field Healing Rest
He loved a lifeless thing and he was utterly and hopelessly wretched.
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Hopeless Life Love Wretch
It’s a kindness that the mind can go where it wishes.
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Freedom Inspirational Kindness Mind
I am a shipwrecked man who fears every sea.
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Fear Man Sea
In our leisure we reveal what kind of people we are.
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Character Leisure People Reveal
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
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
Tears at times have the weight of speech.
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Speech Tears Time Weight
Love is a kind of warfare.
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Kind Love One Liner Warfare
He who has lived in obscurity has lived well.
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Live Onscurity
The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.
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Calm Experience Man Sea
Beauty is a fragile gift.
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Beauty Fragile Gift One Liner
Even as a cow she was lovely.
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Cow Lovely
A man is sorry to be honest for nothing.
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Honest Man Sorry

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