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To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late.

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Some are good, some are middling, the most are bad.
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Bad Goodness
Joys do not stay, but take wing and fly away.
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Fly Happiness Wings
It is as good as second life to be able to look back upon our past life with pleasure.
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Goodness Life Pleasure Sight
Believing hear, what you deserve to hear: Your birthday as my own to me is dear. But yours gives most; for mine did only lend Me to the world; yours gave to me a friend.
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Believe Deserve Myself World
My poems are naughty, but my life is pure.
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Life Naughty Poem Purity
He who prefers to give Linus the half of what he wishes to borrow, rather than to lend him the whole, prefers to lose only the half.
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Borrow Himself Lose Preference
Gifts are like hooks.
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Gift One Liner
I wont let a wife lead me to the altar.
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Leadership Myself Wife
Virtue extends our days: he lives two lives who relives his past with pleasure.
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Day Himself Past Pleasure Virtue
It is not he who forms idols in gold or marble that makes them gods, but he who kneels before them.
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Form God Gold Himself
Life is not living, but living in health.
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Health Life Live One Liner
You should not fear, nor yet should you wish for your last day.
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Day Fear Yourself
Our days pass by, and are scored against us.
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Day Ourselves Pass Score
Some good, some so-so, and lots plain bad: that’s how a book of poems is made, my Friend.
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Book Creation Goodness Literature Myself Poem Writing
This I ask, is it not madness to kill thyself in order to escape death?
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Death Escape Kill Madness Order
Be content to be what you are, and prefer nothing to it, and do not fear or wish for your last day.
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Content Preference Yourself

To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late.

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