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To-morrow I will live, the fool does say; To-day itself’s too late, the wise lived yesterday.

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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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Children Heart Mindset Myself Purity Wife
I have not hated the man, but his faults.
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Hate Man Mistake
Wish to be what you are, and wish for no other position.
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Original Position Yourself
Some are good, some are middling, the most are bad.
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Bad Goodness
You should not fear, nor yet should you wish for your last day.
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Day Fear Yourself
See, how the liver is swollen larger than a fat goose! In amazement you will exclaim: Where could this possibly grow?
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Amazing Animal Food Growth Possible 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
Epigrams need no crier, but are content with their own tongue.
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Content Language Need
I do not love thee, Sabidius, nor can I say why; I can only say this, “I do not love thee.”
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Love Myself
Genuine is the sorrow endured without anyone else knowing about it.
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Endurance Genuine Known Sorrow
Of no day can the retrospect cause pain to a good man.
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Day Goodness Man Pain
This I ask, is it not madness to kill thyself in order to escape death?
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Death Escape Kill Madness Order
Hidden evils are most dreaded.
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Evil Fear Hide
You puff the poets of other days, The living you deplore. Spare me the accolade: your praise Is not worth dying for.
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Death Live Poet Praise Worth
If fame comes after death, I’m in no hurry for it.
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Death Fame Hurry Myself
The virtuous man is never a novice in worldly things.
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Man Virtue World

To-morrow I will live, the fool does say; To-day itself’s too late, the wise lived yesterday.

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