There is a certain pleasure in weeping.

Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion.
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Courage Men Passion Wine
What we have been, or now are, we shall not be tomorrow.
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Change Tomorrow
Poetry comes fine-spun from a mind at peace.
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Mind Peace Poetry
Time the devourer of all things.
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Devourer One Liner Timer
Make the workmanship surpass the materials.
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Material Surpass Work
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
I am dragged along by a strange new force. Desire and reason are pulling in different directions. I see the right way and approve it, but follow the wrong.
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Approve Desire Direction Follow Force Reason Strange Wrong
Even as a cow she was lovely.
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Cow Lovely
The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.
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Calm Experience Man Sea
He loved a lifeless thing and he was utterly and hopelessly wretched.
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Hopeless Life Love Wretch
In our leisure we reveal what kind of people we are.
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Character Leisure People Reveal
A man is sorry to be honest for nothing.
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Honest Man Sorry
We need to accept the strangeness of things as they are.
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Acceptance Strange
Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love.
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Courage Happiness Love
He who has lived in obscurity has lived well.
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Live Onscurity
First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, ‘I believe,’ three times.
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Arise Believe Morning Positive

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