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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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Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed That sets his doors wide open to a thief, And shows the felon where his treasure lies?
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Doors Judgment Lying Treasure
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
And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow’d them with her odorous foot.
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Feet Flower Roots
I feel my griefs too, and there scarce is ground Upon my flesh t’inflict another wound. Yet dare I not complain, or wish for death With holy Paul; lest it be thought the breath Of discontent; or that these prayers be For weariness of life, not love of thee.
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Another Grief Prayer Weariness Wish Wound
Poets are far rarer birds than kings.
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Bird Kings Poet
In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
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Absence Hope Love Miss Sweet
Confound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
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Funny Humor Ideas
He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.
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Glory Servant Virtue
Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.
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Disease Mean Music
Nor use too swelling, or ill-sounded words . . . .
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Sounded Swelling Use Words
Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!
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Age Delight Soul Wonder
It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
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Giving Men Virtue
Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
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Book Looks Reader
Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
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Anxiety Care Possession
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
Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.
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Envy Honor Two

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

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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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