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Beauty is a fragile gift.

Ovid

Blemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven; darkness makes any woman fair.
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Darkness Fair Fault Forgiveness Night Woman
Often the prickly thorn produces tender roses.
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Inspirational Rose Tender Thorn
Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love.
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Courage Happiness Love
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
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
Little things please little minds.
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Little Mind One Liner
Poetry comes fine-spun from a mind at peace.
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Mind Peace Poetry
Death is less bitter punishment than death’s delay.
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Death Deep Delay Punishment
A man is sorry to be honest for nothing.
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Honest Man Sorry
In our play we reveal what kind of people we are.
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Character People Play Reveal
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
First appearance deceives many.
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Appearance Business Deceive
Even as a cow she was lovely.
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Cow Lovely
Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.
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Hard Time Healing Overcome Pain Patience
Love is the force that leaves you colorless.
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Colorless Deep Force Leave Love One Liner
It’s a kindness that the mind can go where it wishes.
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Freedom Inspirational Kindness Mind
If you want to be loved, be lovable.
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Love One Liner Positive Want
It is the poor man who’ll ever count his flock.
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Count Man Poor
Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.
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Appointment Patience Time
Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.
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Return Time Waves
All love is vanquished by a succeeding love.
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Love Vanish
My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.
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Hope Realized
Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.
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Ancient Born Praise Time
There are a thousand forms of evil; there will be a thousand remedies.
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Evil Inspirational Remedy
We need to accept the strangeness of things as they are.
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Acceptance Strange
We believe slowly when belief brings pain.
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Belief Believe Pain Slow

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