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The present joys of life we doubly taste, By looking back with pleasure to the past.

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Live thy life as it were spoil and pluck the joys that fly.
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Fly Joy Life Live
Those they praise, but they read the others.
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One Liner Praise Reading
You should not fear, nor yet should you wish for your last day.
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Day Fear Yourself
If you have any shame, forbear to pluck the beard of a dead lion.
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Death Shame Yourself
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
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
To have nothing is not poverty.
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One Liner Poverty
For life is only life when blessed with health.
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Blessing Health Life
If I remember right, Aelia, you had four teeth; a cough displaced two, another two more. You can now cough without anxiety all the day long. A third cough can find nothing to do in your mouth.
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Anxiety Mouth Remember Right Yourself
You give me nothing during your life, but you promise to provide for me at your death. If you are not a fool, you know what I wish for!
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Death Fools Life Promise Yourself
You’ll get no laurel crown for outrunning a burrow.
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Run Yourself
Of no day can the retrospect cause pain to a good man.
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Day Goodness Man Pain
Believing hear, what you deserve to hear: Your birthday as my own to me is dear. But yours gives most; for mine did only lend Me to the world; yours gave to me a friend.
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Believe Deserve Myself World
I seem to you cruel and too much addicted to gluttony, when I beat my cook for sending up a bad dinner. If that appears to you too trifling a cause, say for what cause you would have a cook flogged.
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Addiction Appearance Cruelty Yourself
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
You crystal break, for fear of breaking it: Careless and careful hands like faults commit.
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Break Care Commitment Crystal Fear Hands Yourself

The present joys of life we doubly taste, By looking back with pleasure to the past.

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