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I attempt an arduous task; but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement.

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You will go most safely by the middle way.
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Business Safe Work
Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.
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Endurance Prove Sorrow
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
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
Take rest; a field that has rested gives a beautiful crop.
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Beautiful Crop Field Healing Rest
Love and dignity cannot share the same abode.
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Dignity Love Share
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
There is a certain pleasure in weeping.
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Cry One Liner Pain Please Pleasure Weep
Even as a cow she was lovely.
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Cow Lovely
The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.
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Calm Experience Man Sea
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
Dignity and love do not blend well, nor do they continue long together.
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Blend Dignity Love Togetherness
Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion.
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Courage Men Passion Wine
We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.
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Deny Forbidden Strive
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
Make the workmanship surpass the materials.
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Material Surpass Work

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