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The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.

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One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
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Character Trouble Women
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
O! How vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do.
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Fear Men Passion
Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.
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Praise Strikes Strokes
Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
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Mind Punishment Vices
He was not of an age, but for all time!
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Age Time
A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
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Eye Government Letter
The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
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Evil Hate Men Oppress
If men will impartially, and not asquint, look toward the offices and function of a poet, they will easily conclude to themselves the impossibility of any man’s being a good poet without first being a good man.
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Good Man Men Office
There is no bounty to be showed to such As have real goodness: Bounty is A spice of virtue; and what virtuous act Can take effect on them that have no power Of equal habitude to apprehend it?
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Real Spices Virtue
Calumnies are answered best with silence.
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Advice Silence
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
Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
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Frail Memories Mind
All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
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Little Wise World
Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!
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Age Delight Soul Wonder
Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
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Angry Concern Slander

The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.

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