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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
In our play we reveal what kind of people we are.
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Character People Play Reveal
Blemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven; darkness makes any woman fair.
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Darkness Fair Fault Forgiveness Night Woman
The burden which is well borne becomes light.
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Burden Light
If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.
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Fall In Love Idle Person
There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
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Anxiety Pleasure Pure
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
It is convenient that there be gods, and, as it is convenient, let us believe there are.
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Believe Convenient God
Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love.
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Courage Happiness Love
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
What is harder than rock, or softer than water? Yet soft water hollows out hard rock. Persevere.
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Hard Hollow Motivational Persevere Rock Soft Water
Sometimes tears carry the same weight as words.
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Poetry Tears Weight Words Writing
The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.
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Encouragement Horse Motivational Race Spirit Try Win
Every lover is a soldier.
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Lover One Liner Soldier
Not knowing what he sees, he adores the sight; That false face fools and fuels his delight.
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Adore Delight Fools Fuel See
I am a shipwrecked man who fears every sea.
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Fear Man Sea

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