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Live thy life as it were spoil and pluck the joys that fly.

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You should not fear, nor yet should you wish for your last day.
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Day Fear Yourself
I wont let a wife lead me to the altar.
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Leadership Myself Wife
Our days pass by, and are scored against us.
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Day Ourselves Pass Score
Wish to be what you are, and wish for no other position.
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Original Position Yourself
I know all that better than my own name.
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Better Myself Name
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
There is no glory in outstripping donkeys.
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Animal Glory
Rarity gives a charm; so early fruits and winter roses are the most prized; and coyness sets off an extravagant mistress, while the door always open tempts no suitor.
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Charm Prize Rare Suit
No amount of misfortune will satisfy the man who is not satisfied with reading a hundred epigrams.
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Misfortune Reading Satisfaction
It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent.
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Elegant Feeling Force Imagination Ourselves
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
To-morrow I will live, the fool does say; To-day itself’s too late, the wise lived yesterday.
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Fools Future Past Wisdom
Remember, cobbler, to keep to your leather.
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Leather Remember Yourself
Every epigram should resemble a bee; it should have sting, honey, and brevity.
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Honey Similar
Whoever makes great presents, expects great presents in return.
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Greatness Present Return
To have nothing is not poverty.
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One Liner Poverty

Live thy life as it were spoil and pluck the joys that fly.

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