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Why do strong arms fatigue themselves with frivolous dumbbells? To dig a vineyard is worthier exercise for men.

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Tomorrow’s life is too late. Live today.
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Inspirational Life Live
Virtue extends our days: he lives two lives who relives his past with pleasure.
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Day Himself Past Pleasure Virtue
Be cheerful, if you are wise.
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Cheerful One Liner Wisdom Yourself
He who weighs his burdens, can bear them.
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Burden Himself Weigh
My poems are naughty, but my life is pure.
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Life Naughty Poem Purity
If my opinion is of any worth, the fieldfare is the greatest delicacy among birds, the hare among quadrupeds.
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Greatness Myself Opinion Worth
This I ask, is it not madness to kill thyself in order to escape death?
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Death Escape Kill Madness Order
Tis easy to write epigrams nicely, but to write a book is hard.
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Book Easy Hard Writing Yourself
Of no day can the retrospect cause pain to a good man.
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Day Goodness Man Pain
To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late.
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Death Glory Late
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
Too late is tomorrow’s life; live for today.
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Day Life Present
Every epigram should resemble a bee; it should have sting, honey, and brevity.
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Honey Similar
The present joys of life we doubly taste, By looking back with pleasure to the past.
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Doubt Ourselves Pleasure Present Taste
For life is only life when blessed with health.
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Blessing Health Life
It is not, believe me, the act of a wise man to say, “I will live.” To-morrow’s life is too late; live to-day.
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Believe Day Man Myself Wisdom

Why do strong arms fatigue themselves with frivolous dumbbells? To dig a vineyard is worthier exercise for men.

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