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Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.

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Poetry comes fine-spun from a mind at peace.
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Mind Peace Poetry
Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.
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Force Hollow Inspirational Persistence Stone Water
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
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
In our play we reveal what kind of people we are.
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Character People Play Reveal
A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.
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Prince Punishment Quick Reward
It is convenient that there be gods, and, as it is convenient, let us believe there are.
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Believe Convenient God
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
By yielding you may obtain victory.
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One Liner Victory Yield
Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked.
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Delight Refuse Same Women
Fortune and love favor the brave.
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Brave Favor Fortune Inspirational Love One Liner
People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.
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Claim Confidence Magnitude People
The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses.
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Deep Delicate Inspirational Produce Rose Sharp
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
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
There are a thousand forms of evil; there will be a thousand remedies.
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Evil Inspirational Remedy

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