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What we have been, or now are, we shall not be tomorrow.
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Change Tomorrow
I am the poet of the poor, because I was poor when I loved; since I could not give gifts, I gave words.
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Gift Love Poet Poor Words
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
You will go most safely by the middle way.
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Business Safe Work
Take rest; a field that has rested gives a beautiful crop.
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Beautiful Crop Field Healing Rest
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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Broke Chain Happiness Hurt Let Ho Man Mind Worry
My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.
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Hope Realized
Death is less bitter punishment than death’s delay.
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Death Deep Delay Punishment
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
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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Approve Desire Direction Follow Force Reason Strange Wrong
Blemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven; darkness makes any woman fair.
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Darkness Fair Fault Forgiveness Night Woman
Fortune and love favor the brave.
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Brave Favor Fortune Inspirational Love One Liner
The burden which is well borne becomes light.
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Burden Light
Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.
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Force Hollow Inspirational Persistence Stone Water
Not knowing what he sees, he adores the sight; That false face fools and fuels his delight.
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Adore Delight Fools Fuel See
Love will enter cloaked in friendship’s name.
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Cloak Enter Friendship Love Name One Liner
Love is a thing that is full of cares and fears.
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Care Fear Love
Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.
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Endurance Prove Sorrow
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
There are a thousand forms of evil; there will be a thousand remedies.
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Evil Inspirational Remedy
Greatly he failed, but he had greatly dared.
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Dare Encouragement Failure Greatness Inspirational One Liner
Beauty is a fragile gift.
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Beauty Fragile Gift One Liner
In the make-up of human beings, intelligence counts for more than our hands, and that is our true strength.
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Count Hands Human Being Intelligence Strength
I grabbed a pile of dust, and holding it up, foolishly asked for as many birthdays as the grains of dust, I forgot to ask that they be years of youth.
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Birthday Dust Grains Youth
I attempt an arduous task; but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement.
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Achievement Attempt Difficult Task Worth
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
Dignity and love do not blend well, nor do they continue long together.
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Blend Dignity Love Togetherness

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