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Genuine is the sorrow endured without anyone else knowing about it.
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Endurance Genuine Known Sorrow
You’re obstinate, pliant, merry, morose, all at once. For me there’s no living with you, or without you.
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Absence Love Myself Togetherness Yourself
Live thy life as it were spoil and pluck the joys that fly.
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Fly Joy Life Live
Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
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Flaw Imagination World Worst
The shameless Chloe placed on the tombs of her seven husbands the inscription, “The work of Chloe.” How could she have expressed herself more plainly?
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Expression Inscription Place Shame
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
This I ask, is it not madness to kill thyself in order to escape death?
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Death Escape Kill Madness Order
It is folly to waste labour about trifles.
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Fools Labour Wasted
While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you may be nothing.
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Solution Yourself
If fame comes after death, I’m in no hurry for it.
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Death Fame Hurry Myself
The swan murmurs sweet strains with a flattering tongue, itself the singer of its own dirge.
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Swan Tongue
Be merry if you are wise.
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One Liner Wisdom
Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
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Enough Fortune Unfair
Fortune gives many too much, but none enough.
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Enough Fate Fortune
Every bird that upwards swings Bears the Cross upon its wings.
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Animal Bird Wings
For life is only life when blessed with health.
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Blessing Health Life

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