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Neither fear your death’s day nor long for it.
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Day Death Fear Yourself
Every bird that upwards swings Bears the Cross upon its wings.
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Animal Bird Wings
I believe that man to be wretched whom none can please.
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Believe Man Myself Please
Genuine is the sorrow endured without anyone else knowing about it.
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Endurance Genuine Known Sorrow
To be able to enjoy one’s past life is to live twice.
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Enjoyment Life Live Past
My poems are naughty, but my life is pure.
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Life Naughty Poem Purity
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
What quick wit is found in sudden straits!
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Finding Quick Sudden
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
Tis easy to write epigrams nicely, but to write a book is hard.
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Book Easy Hard Writing Yourself
Laugh, if thou art wise.
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Laughter One Liner Wisdom
While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you may be nothing.
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Solution Yourself
The swan murmurs sweet strains with a flattering tongue, itself the singer of its own dirge.
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Swan Tongue
A good man doubles the length of his existence; to have lived so as to look back with pleasure on our past existence is to live twice.
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Doubt Existence Goodness Live Man
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
She grieves sincerely who grieves unseen.
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Grief Herself Sincere Unknown

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