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I wont let a wife lead me to the altar.

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I’m what I seem; not any dyer gave, But nature dyed this colour that I have.
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Color Myself Natural
Gifts are like hooks.
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Gift One Liner
You are so pure in mind and heart, In aspect, too, so mild, I wonder that you ever could Implant your wife with child.
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Children Heart Mindset Myself Purity Wife
He who weighs his burdens, can bear them.
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Burden Himself Weigh
I am a shell-fish just come from being saturated with the waters of the Lucrine lake, near Baiae; but now I luxuriously thrust for noble pickle.
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Lake Luxury Myself Water
Short is the life of those who possess great accomplishments, and seldom do they reach a good old age. Whatever thou lovest, pray that thou mayest not set too high a value on it.
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Accomplishment High Life Possession Short Value Yourself
Your seventh wife, Phileros, is now being buried in your field. No man’s field brings him greater profit than yours, Phileros.
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Bury Death Profit Wife Yourself
You puff the poets of other days, The living you deplore. Spare me the accolade: your praise Is not worth dying for.
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Death Live Poet Praise Worth
It is not, believe me, the act of a wise man to say, “I will live.” To-morrow’s life is too late; live to-day.
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Believe Day Man Myself Wisdom
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
Every bird that upwards swings Bears the Cross upon its wings.
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Animal Bird Wings
To be able to enjoy one’s past life is to live twice.
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Enjoyment Life Live Past
This I ask, is it not madness to kill thyself in order to escape death?
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Death Escape Kill Madness Order
Too late is tomorrow’s life; live for today.
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Day Life Present
Birds of a feather will flock together.
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Bird Friendship Togetherness
A good man doubles the length of his existence; to have lived so as to look back with pleasure on our past existence is to live twice.
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Doubt Existence Goodness Live Man

I wont let a wife lead me to the altar.

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