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There is a certain pleasure in weeping.
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Cry One Liner Pain Please Pleasure Weep
We believe slowly when belief brings pain.
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Belief Believe Pain Slow
Make the workmanship surpass the materials.
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Material Surpass Work
The burden which is well borne becomes light.
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Burden Light
Dignity and love do not blend well, nor do they continue long together.
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Blend Dignity Love Togetherness
What is harder than rock, or softer than water? Yet soft water hollows out hard rock. Persevere.
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Hard Hollow Motivational Persevere Rock Soft Water
Even as a cow she was lovely.
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Cow Lovely
Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love.
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Courage Happiness Love
Love is the force that leaves you colorless.
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Colorless Deep Force Leave Love One Liner
My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.
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Hope Realized
Love is a thing that is full of cares and fears.
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Care Fear Love
We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.
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Deny Forbidden Strive
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
Give way to your opponent; thus will you gain the crown of victory.
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Crown Gain Opponent Victory
Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.
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Ancient Born Praise Time
Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.
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Deed Human Nature Reward Value

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