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Blueness doth express trueness.

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Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.
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Guilt Guilty Shame
It is as great a spite to be praised in the wrong place, and by a wrong person, as can be done to a noble nature.
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Done Noble Person Wrong
I’ll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news.
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False Giving News True
What excellent fools religion makes of men.
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Men Religion Religious
Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
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Angry Concern Slander
Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
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Frail Memories Mind
A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
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Good Loss Men Rise
The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
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Evil Hate Men Oppress
It is a note Of upstart greatness to observe and watch For these poor trifles, which the noble mind Neglects and scorns.
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Greatness Mind Scorn Watches
I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.
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Compassion Justice Weakness
Let argument bear no unmusical sound.
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Argument Bears Sound
The way to rise is to obey and please.
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Please Success Way
Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.
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Folly Impudence Rudeness
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
It is less dishonor to hear imperfectly than to speak imperfectly. The ears are excused; the understanding is not.
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Ears Speak Understanding
Follow a shadow, it still flies you, Seem to fly, it will pursue: So court a mistress, she denies you; Let her alone, she will court you. Say are not women truly, then, Styled but the shadows of us men?
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Men Mistress Shadow

Blueness doth express trueness.

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