We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.
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Make the workmanship surpass the materials.
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Love will enter cloaked in friendship’s name.
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If you want to be loved, be lovable.
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Even as a cow she was lovely.
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The lamp burns bright when wick and oil are clean.
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Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.
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The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses.
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Love and dignity cannot share the same abode.
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Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.
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Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by.
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Enhance and intensify one’s vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality.
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I am a shipwrecked man who fears every sea.
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Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.
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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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We need to accept the strangeness of things as they are.
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