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It is the highest of earthly honors to be descended from the great and good. They alone cry out against a noble ancestry who have none of their own.
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Ancestry Honor Noble
Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!
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Age Delight Soul Wonder
Nor for my peace will I go far, As wanderers do, that still do roam, But make my strengths, such as they are, Here in my bosom, and at home.
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Home Stills Wanderers
The world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
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Conceited Fools Rome Two
Tell troth and shame the devil.
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Devil Shame Truth
The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
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Evil Hate Men Oppress
God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man’s dearer than to himself.
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Men Strange Wrecks
Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.
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Good Man Heaven Men
O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
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Forget Sun Time
If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
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Illness Neurosis Sick
He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.
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Glory Servant Virtue
The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
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Dignity Life Losing
Rich apparel has strange virtues; it makes him that hath it without means esteemed for an excellent wit; he that enjoys it with means puts the world in remembrance of his means.
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Mean Remembrance Rich World
A good poet’s made as well as born.
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Born Made Poet
The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.
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Infinite Men Soul
[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.
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Conceited English Plain Play

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