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Genuine is the sorrow endured without anyone else knowing about it.

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It is not he who forms idols in gold or marble that makes them gods, but he who kneels before them.
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Form God Gold Himself
He who writes distichs, wishes, I suppose, to please by brevity. But, tell me, of what avail is their brevity, when there is a whose book full of them?
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Book Himself Writing
A vagrant is everywhere at home.
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Home One Liner
While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you may be nothing.
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Solution Yourself
To-morrow I will live, the fool does say; To-day itself’s too late, the wise lived yesterday.
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Fools Future Past Wisdom
Givers of great dinners know few enemies.
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Enemy Food Greatness
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
Fortune gives many too much, but none enough.
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Enough Fate Fortune
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
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
I know all that better than my own name.
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Better Myself Name
Be merry if you are wise.
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One Liner Wisdom
Nothing is more ill-timed than an ill-timed laugh.
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Laughter Time
No amount of misfortune will satisfy the man who is not satisfied with reading a hundred epigrams.
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Misfortune Reading Satisfaction
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
Epigrams need no crier, but are content with their own tongue.
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Content Language Need

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