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Nor shall our cups make any guilty men; But at our parting, we will be, as when We innocently met.

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Many might go to heaven with half the labour they go to hell, if they would venture their industry the right way.
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Half Heaven Venture
He threatens many that hath injured one.
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Crime Injured Threaten
A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.
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Gratitude Men Needs
I now think, Love is rather deaf, than blind, For else it could not be, That she, Whom I adore so much, should so slight me, And cast my love behind.
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Blind Love Slight Thinking
A valiant man Ought not to undergo, or tempt a danger, But worthily, and by selected ways, He undertakes with reason, not by chance. His valor is the salt t’ his other virtues, They’re all unseason’d without it.
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Men Salt Way
Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
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Faces Home House
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
Nothing is more short-lived than pride.
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Live Pride Short
If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.
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Art Being Poverty True
A good life is a main argument.
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Argument Good Inspirational Life
How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
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Fortune Practise Sports
For whose sake, henceforth, all his vows be such, As what he loves may never like too much.
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Love May Sake
All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
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Discourse Harsh Speech
Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
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Lines Sweat Writing
There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
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Creeds Doctrine Good Waiting
Success hath made me wanton.
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Hath Made Success Wanton

Nor shall our cups make any guilty men; But at our parting, we will be, as when We innocently met.

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