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Make the workmanship surpass the materials.
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Material Surpass Work
The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses.
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Deep Delicate Inspirational Produce Rose Sharp
Love will enter cloaked in friendship’s name.
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Cloak Enter Friendship Love Name One Liner
Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.
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Health Medicine Pain Snatch
Blemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven; darkness makes any woman fair.
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Darkness Fair Fault Forgiveness Night Woman
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Cause Effect Hide Visible
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
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
Sometimes tears carry the same weight as words.
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Poetry Tears Weight Words Writing
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
Eurydice, dying now a second time, uttered no complaint against her husband. What was there to complain of, but that she had been loved?
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Complain Husband Love
Take rest; a field that has rested gives a beautiful crop.
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Beautiful Crop Field Healing Rest
Give way to your opponent; thus will you gain the crown of victory.
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Crown Gain Opponent Victory
There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled.
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Alcohol Nap Refresh Stimulation
Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.
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Return Time Waves
Death is less bitter punishment than death’s delay.
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Death Deep Delay Punishment

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