The dew of compassion is a tear.

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I slept and dreamt that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty.

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What deep wounds ever closed without a scar? The hearts bleed longest, and heals but to wear That which disfigures it.

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Think not I am what I appear.

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They never fail who die in a great cause.

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Be warm, be pure, be amorous, but be chaste.

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You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her. Never underestimate the power of love. The way to love anything is to realize it may be lost. The heart has its reasons that reason does not know at all. Music is love in search of a word. There is pleasure in the pathless woods; there is a rapture on the lonely shore; There is society, where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar.

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There are four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.

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The best prophet of the future is the past.

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Friendship is Love without his wings!

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