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You crystal break, for fear of breaking it: Careless and careful hands like faults commit.

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In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a wreched life.
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Adversity Brave Easy Endurance Life True
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
You should not fear, nor yet should you wish for your last day.
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Day Fear 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
Some things are good, some middling, more bad.
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Bad Goodness
To be able to enjoy one’s past life is to live twice.
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Enjoyment Life Live Past
Tis easy to write epigrams nicely, but to write a book is hard.
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Book Easy Hard Writing Yourself
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 are good, some are middling, the most are bad.
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Bad Goodness
A good man enlarges the term of his own existence.
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Existence Goodness Himself Man Term
One genius has made many clever artists.
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Artist Genius Oneself
This I ask, is it not madness to kill thyself in order to escape death?
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Death Escape Kill Madness Order
The face that cannot smile is never fair.
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Face Fair Happiness Smile
A fisherman’s walk: three steps and overboard.
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Man Walk
Neither fear your death’s day nor long for it.
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Day Death Fear Yourself
I’m what I seem; not any dyer gave, But nature dyed this colour that I have.
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Color Myself Natural

You crystal break, for fear of breaking it: Careless and careful hands like faults commit.

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