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Anything cracked will shatter at a touch.

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Blemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven; darkness makes any woman fair.
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Darkness Fair Fault Forgiveness Night Woman
Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by.
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Endurance Goodness Pain Persistance
Give way to your opponent; thus will you gain the crown of victory.
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Crown Gain Opponent Victory
Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.
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Health Medicine Pain Snatch
Sometimes tears carry the same weight as words.
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Poetry Tears Weight Words Writing
First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, ‘I believe,’ three times.
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Arise Believe Morning Positive
Even as a cow she was lovely.
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Cow Lovely
What we have been, or now are, we shall not be tomorrow.
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Change Tomorrow
Love and dignity cannot share the same abode.
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Dignity Love Share
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
The burden which is well borne becomes light.
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Burden Light
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
I am the poet of the poor, because I was poor when I loved; since I could not give gifts, I gave words.
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Gift Love Poet Poor Words
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
Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked.
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Delight Refuse Same Women

Anything cracked will shatter at a touch.

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