Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.
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But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To know the pain of too much tenderness. To be wounded by your own understanding of love And to bleed willingly and joyfully.
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Surely you would not honour one guest above the other; for he who is more mindful of one loses the love and the faith of both.
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