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If you want to be loved, be lovable.

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What we have been, or now are, we shall not be tomorrow.
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Change Tomorrow
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
Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.
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Health Medicine Pain Snatch
Fair peace becomes men; ferocious anger belongs to beasts.
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Anger Beast Fair Peace
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
There are a thousand forms of evil; there will be a thousand remedies.
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Evil Inspirational Remedy
Give way to your opponent; thus will you gain the crown of victory.
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Crown Gain Opponent Victory
It is the poor man who’ll ever count his flock.
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Count Man Poor
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
We believe slowly when belief brings pain.
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Belief Believe Pain Slow
Enhance and intensify one’s vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality.
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Beauty Enhance Reality Truth Vision
The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.
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Calm Experience Man Sea
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
My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.
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Hope Realized
People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.
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Claim Confidence Magnitude People
Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love.
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Courage Happiness Love

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