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Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.
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Past Winning Years
There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
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Creeds Doctrine Good Waiting
Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.
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Affliction Person Prayer Wicked
I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
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Glory Greed Wealth
He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
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Honesty Vulgar
The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
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Acknowledge Ass Devil
The burnt child dreads the fire.
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Children Dread Fire
A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.
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Gratitude Men Needs
When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity.
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Enemy Grief Men
Nor shall our cups make any guilty men; But at our parting, we will be, as when We innocently met.
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Cup Drinking Men
Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.
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Guilt Guilty Shame
Money never made any man rich, but his mind. He that can order himself to the law of nature, is not only without the sense, but the fear of poverty.
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Law Men Mind Order Sense
A good dog deserves a good bone.
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Bones Canine Dog
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
Tell troth and shame the devil.
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Devil Shame Truth
All concord’s born of contraries.
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Born Contradiction Contrary

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