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If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.
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Fall In Love Idle Person
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
Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.
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Deed Human Nature Reward Value
It is convenient that there be gods, and, as it is convenient, let us believe there are.
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Believe Convenient God
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
He loved a lifeless thing and he was utterly and hopelessly wretched.
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Hopeless Life Love Wretch
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
Fortune and love favor the brave.
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Brave Favor Fortune Inspirational Love One Liner
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
Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by.
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Endurance Goodness Pain Persistance
In our leisure we reveal what kind of people we are.
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Character Leisure People Reveal
Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion.
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Courage Men Passion Wine
Poetry comes fine-spun from a mind at peace.
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Mind Peace Poetry
We need to accept the strangeness of things as they are.
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Acceptance Strange
Tears at times have the weight of speech.
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Speech Tears Time Weight

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