What is it that love does to a woman? Without she only sleeps; with it alone, she lives.
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What is harder than rock, or softer than water? Yet soft water hollows out hard rock. Persevere.
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The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses.
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Often the prickly thorn produces tender roses.
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Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.
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First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, ‘I believe,’ three times.
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We believe slowly when belief brings pain.
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The lamp burns bright when wick and oil are clean.
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Fortune and love favor the brave.
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If you want to be loved, be lovable.
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In our play we reveal what kind of people we are.
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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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Death is less bitter punishment than death’s delay.
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I am a shipwrecked man who fears every sea.
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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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You will go most safely by the middle way.
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