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To have nothing is not poverty.

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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
He who weighs his burdens, can bear them.
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Burden Himself Weigh
Gifts are like hooks.
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Gift One Liner
Life is not living, but living in health.
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Health Life Live 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
There is no living with thee, nor without thee.
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God Live Religious
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
A vagrant is everywhere at home.
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Home One Liner
Some are good, some are middling, the most are bad.
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Bad Goodness
They let out on hire their passions and eloquence. [Referring to lawyers.]
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Elegant Hire Passion
Every bird that upwards swings Bears the Cross upon its wings.
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Animal Bird Wings
A good man enlarges the term of his own existence.
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Existence Goodness Himself Man Term
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
It is as good as second life to be able to look back upon our past life with pleasure.
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Goodness Life Pleasure Sight
Wine and women bring misery.
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Alcohol Misery Wine
No hero to me is the man who, by easy shedding of his blood, purchases fame: my hero is he who, without death, can win praise.
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Blood Death Easy Fame Hero Himself Man Purchase

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