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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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I can live neither with you, nor without you.
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Break Up I Miss You
Tears at times have the weight of speech.
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Speech Tears Time Weight
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
Blemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven; darkness makes any woman fair.
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Darkness Fair Fault Forgiveness Night Woman
I flee who chases me and chase who flees me.
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Chase Curiosity
At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.
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Delay Inspirational Time Wise
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
Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.
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Broke Chain Happiness Hurt Let Ho Man Mind Worry
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
Either do not attempt at all or go through with it.
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Attempt Hustle Motivational
Time is generally the best doctor.
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Doctor One Liner Time
We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.
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Deny Forbidden Strive
If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.
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Fall In Love Idle Person
I am a shipwrecked man who fears every sea.
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Fear Man Sea
Death is less bitter punishment than death’s delay.
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Death Deep Delay Punishment
Poetry comes fine-spun from a mind at peace.
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Mind Peace Poetry
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
God himself helps those who dare.
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Dare God Help Inspirational One Liner
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
He who has lived in obscurity has lived well.
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Live Onscurity
Our native land charms us with inexpressible sweetness, and never, never allows us to forget that we belong to it.
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Charm Country Forget
He loved a lifeless thing and he was utterly and hopelessly wretched.
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Hopeless Life Love Wretch
It’s right to learn, even from the enemy.
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Enemy Learn One Liner
You will go most safely by the middle way.
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Business Safe Work
Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.
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Health Medicine Pain Snatch
Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.
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Force Hollow Inspirational Persistence Stone Water
Love is the force that leaves you colorless.
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Colorless Deep Force Leave Love One Liner

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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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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