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To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late.

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It is to live twice when we can enjoy the recollections of our former life.
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Enjoyment Former Life Live
Life is not merely to be alive, but to be well.
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Alive Life One Liner
If you have any shame, forbear to pluck the beard of a dead lion.
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Death Shame Yourself
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
What’s a wretched man? A man whom no man pleases.
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Man Please Satisfaction
I know all that better than my own name.
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Better Myself Name
You complain, friend Swift, of the length of my epigrams, but you yourself write nothing. Yours are shorter.
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Friendship Short Writing Yourself
To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late.
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Death Glory Late
The present joys of life we doubly taste, By looking back with pleasure to the past.
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Doubt Ourselves Pleasure Present Taste
Be satisfied, and pleased with what thou art, Act cheerfully and well thou allotted part; Enjoy the present hour, be thankful for the past, And neither fear, nor wish, the approaches of the last.
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Cheer Enjoyment Fear Past Satisfaction Thankful
For life is only life when blessed with health.
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Blessing Health Life
He who thinks that the lives of Priam and of Nestor were long is much deceived and mistaken. Life consists not in living, but in enjoying health.
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Enjoyment Health Mistake Thinking
Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
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Flaw Imagination World Worst
There is nothing more revolting than an old busybody.
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Body Old Revolution
You may envy every one, but no one envies you.
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Envy Jealous Yourself
If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.
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Himself Leaving Mourn

To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late.

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