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We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.

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A man is sorry to be honest for nothing.
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Honest Man Sorry
It is the poor man who’ll ever count his flock.
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Count Man Poor
There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
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Anxiety Pleasure Pure
The lamp burns bright when wick and oil are clean.
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Bright Burn Clean Lamp Wicked
We believe slowly when belief brings pain.
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What is harder than rock, or softer than water? Yet soft water hollows out hard rock. Persevere.
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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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Love is a kind of warfare.
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My vengeance is my guilt.
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Blemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven; darkness makes any woman fair.
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Darkness Fair Fault Forgiveness Night Woman
It’s right to learn, even from the enemy.
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Death is less bitter punishment than death’s delay.
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Death Deep Delay Punishment
People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.
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In our leisure we reveal what kind of people we are.
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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
Time the devourer of all things.
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We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.

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