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Spare the person but lash the vice.

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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
While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you may be nothing.
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Solution Yourself
From no place can you exclude the fates.
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Fate Place Yourself
A fisherman’s walk: three steps and overboard.
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Man Walk
While an ant was wandering under the shade of the tree of Phaeton, a drop of amber enveloped the tiny insect; thus she, who in life was disregarded, became precious by death.
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Ant Death Life Precious Shade Value
He truly sorrows who sorrows unseen.
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Hide One Liner Sorrow True
You importune me, Tucca, to present you with my books. I shall not do so; for you want to sell, not to read, them.
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Book Myself Present Reading Yourself
It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent.
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Elegant Feeling Force Imagination Ourselves
Some things are good, some middling, more bad.
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Bad Goodness
Life is not merely to be alive, but to be well.
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Alive Life One Liner
Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
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Enough Fortune Unfair
Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
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Flaw Imagination World Worst
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
Be cheerful, if you are wise.
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Cheerful One Liner Wisdom Yourself
It is easy in adversity to despise death; he has real fortitude who dares to live and be wretched.
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Adversity Death Easy Live Reality

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