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In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress.

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I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.

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There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.

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Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act.

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Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph; killing will be defamed. Let priests secretly despair of faith: their compassion will be true.

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The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense that a catastrophe has occurred in the psychic landscape.

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A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love.

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Certes, they been lye to hounds, for an hound when he cometh by the roses, or by other bushes, though he may nat pisse, yet wole he heve up his leg and make a countenance to pisse.

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Time and tide wait for no man.

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We know little of the things for which we pray.

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There's never a new fashion but it's old.

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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

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First he wrought, and afterward he taught.

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Love is blind.

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And she was fayr as is the rose in May.

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People can die of mere imagination.

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The guilty think all talk is of themselves.

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Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

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He was a verray, parfit gentil knyght.

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The bisy larke, messager of day.

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