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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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In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a wreched life.
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Adversity Brave Easy Endurance Life True
Who gives to friends so much from Fate secures, That is the only wealth for ever yours.
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Fate Friendship Secure Wealth Yourself
Those they praise, but they read the others.
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One Liner Praise Reading
To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late.
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Death Glory Late
My poems are naughty, but my life is pure.
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Life Naughty Poem Purity
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
Every bird that upwards swings Bears the Cross upon its wings.
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Animal Bird Wings
Spare the person but lash the vice.
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One Liner Person Vice
Red-haired, black-lipped, club-footed, and blink-eyed; if you’re a good man, you’re a wonder!
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Goodness Man Yourself
You crystal break, for fear of breaking it: Careless and careful hands like faults commit.
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Break Care Commitment Crystal Fear Hands Yourself
Such are thou and I: but what I am thou canst not be; what thou art any one of the multitude may be.
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Art Myself Yourself
You may envy every one, but no one envies you.
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Envy Jealous Yourself
Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
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Flaw Imagination World Worst
The bee is enclosed, and shines preserved in amber, so that it seems enshrined in its own nectar.
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Nectar Preserve Shine Shrine
The virtuous man is never a novice in worldly things.
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Man Virtue World
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

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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