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Every bird that upwards swings Bears the Cross upon its wings.

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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
Short is the life of those who possess great accomplishments, and seldom do they reach a good old age. Whatever thou lovest, pray that thou mayest not set too high a value on it.
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Accomplishment High Life Possession Short Value Yourself
To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late.
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Death Glory Late
You may envy every one, but no one envies you.
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Envy Jealous Yourself
Gifts are like hooks.
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Gift One Liner
It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent.
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Elegant Feeling Force Imagination Ourselves
I have granted you much that you asked: and yet you never cease to ask of me. He who refuses nothing, Atticilla, will soon have nothing to refuse.
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Gratitude Greedy Myself Refusal
While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you may be nothing.
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Solution 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
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 flaw which is hidden is deemed greater than it is.
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Flaw Greatness Hide
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
Your seventh wife, Phileros, is now being buried in your field. No man’s field brings him greater profit than yours, Phileros.
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Bury Death Profit Wife Yourself
I know all that better than my own name.
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Better Myself Name
Be merry if you are wise.
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One Liner Wisdom
If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.
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Himself Leaving Mourn

Every bird that upwards swings Bears the Cross upon its wings.

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