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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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Some things are good, some middling, more bad.
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Bad Goodness
Life is not living, but living in health.
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Health Life Live One Liner
Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief.
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Page Stand Thief Yourself
Wish to be what you are, and wish for no other position.
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Original Position Yourself
No amount of misfortune will satisfy the man who is not satisfied with reading a hundred epigrams.
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Misfortune Reading Satisfaction
Our days pass by, and are scored against us.
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Day Ourselves Pass Score
I’m what I seem; not any dyer gave, But nature dyed this colour that I have.
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Color Myself Natural
It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent.
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Elegant Feeling Force Imagination Ourselves
The face that cannot smile is never fair.
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Face Fair Happiness Smile
To have nothing is not poverty.
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One Liner Poverty
You are so pure in mind and heart, In aspect, too, so mild, I wonder that you ever could Implant your wife with child.
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Children Heart Mindset Myself Purity Wife
From no place can you exclude the fates.
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Fate Place Yourself
What’s a wretched man? A man whom no man pleases.
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Man Please Satisfaction
Hidden evils are most dreaded.
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Evil Fear Hide
Nothing is more ill-timed than an ill-timed laugh.
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Laughter Time
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

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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