Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.

He loved a lifeless thing and he was utterly and hopelessly wretched.
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Hopeless Life Love Wretch
We need to accept the strangeness of things as they are.
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Acceptance Strange
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
Fair peace becomes men; ferocious anger belongs to beasts.
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Anger Beast Fair Peace
In our leisure we reveal what kind of people we are.
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Character Leisure People Reveal
There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
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Anxiety Pleasure Pure
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
Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.
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Deed Human Nature Reward Value
Time the devourer of all things.
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Devourer One Liner Timer
People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.
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Claim Confidence Magnitude People
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
We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.
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Deny Forbidden Strive
A man is sorry to be honest for nothing.
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Honest Man Sorry
Habits change into character.
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Character Deep Habit One Liner
He who has lived in obscurity has lived well.
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Live Onscurity

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