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A novice always behaves with propriety.

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This I ask, is it not madness to kill thyself in order to escape death?
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Death Escape Kill Madness Order
He truly sorrows who sorrows unseen.
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Hide One Liner Sorrow True
There is no living with thee, nor without thee.
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God Live Religious
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
Laugh, if thou art wise.
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Laughter One Liner Wisdom
While an ant was wandering under the shade of the tree of Phaeton, a drop of amber enveloped the tiny insect; thus she, who in life was disregarded, became precious by death.
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Ant Death Life Precious Shade Value
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
Genuine is the sorrow endured without anyone else knowing about it.
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Endurance Genuine Known Sorrow
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
For life is only life when blessed with health.
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Blessing Health Life
Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
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Flaw Imagination World Worst
If you have any shame, forbear to pluck the beard of a dead lion.
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Death Shame Yourself
The African lions rush to attack bulls; they do not attack butterflies.
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Advice Attack Deep Lion Rush
My poems are naughty, but my life is pure.
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Life Naughty Poem Purity
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
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

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