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People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.

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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
And besides, we lovers fear everything.
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Fear Lover One Liner
Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion.
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Courage Men Passion Wine
Blemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven; darkness makes any woman fair.
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Darkness Fair Fault Forgiveness Night Woman
Habits change into character.
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Character Deep Habit One Liner
It is convenient that there be gods, and, as it is convenient, let us believe there are.
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Believe Convenient God
Often the prickly thorn produces tender roses.
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Inspirational Rose Tender Thorn
Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.
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Health Medicine Pain Snatch
Love is the force that leaves you colorless.
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Colorless Deep Force Leave Love One Liner
If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.
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Fall In Love Idle Person
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
First appearance deceives many.
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Appearance Business Deceive
Love is a kind of warfare.
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Kind Love One Liner Warfare
The lamp burns bright when wick and oil are clean.
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Bright Burn Clean Lamp Wicked
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
I attempt an arduous task; but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement.
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Achievement Attempt Difficult Task Worth
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
Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.
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Hard Time Healing Overcome Pain Patience
The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.
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Calm Experience Man Sea
Love is a thing that is full of cares and fears.
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Care Fear Love
Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.
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Ancient Born Praise Time
By yielding you may obtain victory.
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One Liner Victory Yield
I can live neither with you, nor without you.
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Break Up I Miss You
Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.
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Endurance Prove Sorrow
Little things please little minds.
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Little Mind One Liner
In the make-up of human beings, intelligence counts for more than our hands, and that is our true strength.
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Count Hands Human Being Intelligence Strength
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

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