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Gifts are like hooks.

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Live thy life as it were spoil and pluck the joys that fly.
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Fly Joy Life Live
While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you may be nothing.
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Solution Yourself
What quick wit is found in sudden straits!
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Finding Quick Sudden
Who gives to friends so much from Fate secures, That is the only wealth for ever yours.
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Fate Friendship Secure Wealth Yourself
The bee is enclosed, and shines preserved in amber, so that it seems enshrined in its own nectar.
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Nectar Preserve Shine Shrine
You may envy every one, but no one envies you.
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Envy Jealous Yourself
The shameless Chloe placed on the tombs of her seven husbands the inscription, “The work of Chloe.” How could she have expressed herself more plainly?
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Expression Inscription Place Shame
You are sad in the midst of every blessing. Take care that Fortune does not observe–or she will call you ungrateful.
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Blessing Care Fortune Gratitude Observation Sadness Yourself
I know all that better than my own name.
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Better Myself Name
You complain, friend Swift, of the length of my epigrams, but you yourself write nothing. Yours are shorter.
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Friendship Short Writing Yourself
You admire, Vacerra, only the poets of old and praise only those who are dead. Pardon me, I beseech you, Vacerra, if I think death too high a price to pay for your praise.
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Admire Death Old Pay Poet Praise Price Thinking Yourself
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
He truly sorrows who sorrows unseen.
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Hide One Liner Sorrow True
If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.
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Himself Leaving Mourn
Tis easy to write epigrams nicely, but to write a book is hard.
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Book Easy Hard Writing Yourself
For life is only life when blessed with health.
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Blessing Health Life

Gifts are like hooks.

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