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Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

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Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
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Enough Fortune Unfair
He who weighs his burdens, can bear them.
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Burden Himself Weigh
It is to live twice when we can enjoy the recollections of our former life.
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Enjoyment Former Life Live
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
I do not hate the man, but his vices.
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Hate Himself Man One Liner Vice
You ask what a nice girl will do? She won’t give an inch, but she won’t say no.
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Herself Woman
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
Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief.
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Page Stand Thief Yourself
Some are good, some are middling, the most are bad.
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Bad Goodness
They let out on hire their passions and eloquence. [Referring to lawyers.]
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Elegant Hire Passion
From no place can you exclude the fates.
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Fate Place Yourself
Remember, cobbler, to keep to your leather.
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Leather Remember Yourself
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
It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent.
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Elegant Feeling Force Imagination Ourselves
I have not hated the man, but his faults.
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Hate Man Mistake
The present joys of life we doubly taste, By looking back with pleasure to the past.
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Doubt Ourselves Pleasure Present Taste

Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

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