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Monogamy and prostitution go together.

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If a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand.

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For here the lover and killer are mingled who had one body and one heart....

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You will be more useful to the world if, flaws and all, you carry on with your purpose in life. The alternative is cowering in a corner like a clod of dirt, lamenting your imperfections.

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You can only be in one place at any time. Choose where you want to be carefully.

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If we could only fathom what a unique, once-in-a-lifetime experience life is, perhaps we would pay more attention to it.

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I find myself awed by nature, every time, without fail. We are nature too, despite our wild antics of civilization and technology. For better or worse, it's impossible for us to separate ourselves from it.

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I want to die while you love me, And never, never see The glory of this perfect day Grow dim, or cease to be!

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On the day that will always belong to you, lunar clockwork had faltered...

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They are not long, the days of wine and roses:Out of a misty dreamOur path emerges for a while, then closesWithin a dream.

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It would not hurt that we live our lives with childlike wonder. Have you asked yourself lately: "When was the last time I saw something for the first time?

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Remember that whatever energy you put out there will go back to you.

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I was not born a fighter but I sure was born to fight.

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Thus when we fondly flatter our desires, Our best conceits do prove the greatest liars.

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Before my face it lays down my despairs, And hastes me on unto a sudden death,

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But when the bowels of the earth were sought, And men her golden entrails did espy,...

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And when the Salmon seeks a fresher stream to find; (Which hither from the sea comes, yearly, by his kind,) As he towards season grows; and stems the watry tract Where Tivy, falling down, makes an high cataract, Forc'd by the rising rocks that there her course oppose, As tho' within her bounds they meant her to inclose; Here when the labouring fish does at the foot arrive, And finds that by his strength he does but vainly strive; His tail takes in his mouth, and, bending like a bow That's to full compass drawn, aloft himself doth throw, Then springing at his height, as doth a little wand That bended end to end, and started from man's hand, Far off itself doth cast, so does that Salmon vault; And if, at first, he fail, his second summersault He instantly essays, and, from his nimble ring Still yerking, never leaves until himself he fling Above the opposing stream.

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No far-fetched sigh shall ever wound my breast, Love from mine eye a tear shall never wring,...

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Now if thou wouldst, when all have given him over, From death to life thou mightst him yet recover.

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Must, bid the Morn awake! Sad Winter now declines, Each bird doth choose a mate; This day's Saint Valentine's. For that good bishop's sake Get up and let us see What beauty it shall be That Fortune us assigns.

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