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At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.

Ovid

We need to accept the strangeness of things as they are.
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Acceptance Strange
Take rest; a field that has rested gives a beautiful crop.
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Beautiful Crop Field Healing Rest
All love is vanquished by a succeeding love.
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Love Vanish
Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.
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Endurance Prove Sorrow
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
Love will enter cloaked in friendship’s name.
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Cloak Enter Friendship Love Name One Liner
I grabbed a pile of dust, and holding it up, foolishly asked for as many birthdays as the grains of dust, I forgot to ask that they be years of youth.
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Birthday Dust Grains Youth
There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled.
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Alcohol Nap Refresh Stimulation
It is the poor man who’ll ever count his flock.
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Count Man Poor
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
We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.
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Deny Forbidden Strive
Time is generally the best doctor.
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Doctor One Liner Time
It is convenient that there be gods, and, as it is convenient, let us believe there are.
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Believe Convenient God
Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.
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Force Hollow Inspirational Persistence Stone Water
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

At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.

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