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Glory comes too late when we are nought but ashes.

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Fortune gives many too much, but none enough.
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Enough Fate Fortune
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
Too late is tomorrow’s life; live for today.
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Day Life Present
Tomorrow’s life is too late. Live today.
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Inspirational Life Live
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
A novice always behaves with propriety.
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Beginning Behavior Novice
Wish to be what you are, and wish for no other position.
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Original Position Yourself
Life is not living, but living in health.
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Health Life Live One Liner
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
Gifts are like hooks.
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Gift One Liner
If fame comes after death, I’m in no hurry for it.
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Death Fame Hurry Myself
A vagrant is everywhere at home.
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Home One Liner
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
I know all that better than my own name.
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Better Myself Name
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

Glory comes too late when we are nought but ashes.

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