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Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.

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Venus is kind to creatures as young as we; We know not what we do, and while we’re young We have the right to live and love like gods.
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Creature God Love Planet Venus Young
All things change; nothing perishes.
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Change One Liner Perish
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
Hurry to your goal together. That is full bliss when man and woman lie equally conquered.
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Bliss Conquer Equality Goals Hurry Togetherness Woman
What is it that love does to a woman? Without she only sleeps; with it alone, she lives.
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Live Love She Sleep Woman
By yielding you may obtain victory.
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One Liner Victory Yield
A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.
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Prince Punishment Quick Reward
If you want to be loved, be lovable.
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Love One Liner Positive Want
The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.
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Encouragement Horse Motivational Race Spirit Try Win
Love will enter cloaked in friendship’s name.
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Cloak Enter Friendship Love Name One Liner
First appearance deceives many.
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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 Delicate Ideas Kill Man Sneer Yawn
The cause is hidden. The effect is visible to all.
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I am a shipwrecked man who fears every sea.
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Fear Man Sea
At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.
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Delay Inspirational Time Wise
Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.
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Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.

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