He knew how to say many false things that were like true sayings.
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And when long years and seasons wheeling brought around that point of time ordained for him to make his passage homeward, trials and dangers, even so,...
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Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe.
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For I say there is no other thing that is worse than the sea is for breaking a man, even though he may a very strong one.
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Question me now about all other matters, but do not ask who I am, for fear you may increase in my heart it's burden of sorrow as I think back; I am ve...
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…There is the heat of Love, the pulsing rush of Longing, the lover’s whisper, irresistible—magic to make the sanest man go mad.
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Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.
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The gods granted us misery, in jealousy over the thought that we two, always together, should enjoy our youth, and then come to the threshold of old a...
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And empty words are evil.
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But they could neither of them persuade me, for there is nothing dearer to a man than his own country and his parents, and however splendid a home he ...
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Take courage, my heart: you have been through worse than this. Be strong, saith my heart; I am a soldier; I have seen worse sights than this.
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Come then, put away your sword in its sheath, and let us two go up into my bed so that, lying together in the bed of love, we may then have faith and ...
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No finer, greater gift in the world than that: When man and woman possess their home, two minds, two hearts that work as one. Despair to their enemies...
