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I have no urns, no dusty monuments; No broken images of ancestors, Wanting an ear, or nose; no forged tales Of long descents, to boast false honors from.

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Indeed there’s a woundy luck in names.
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Indeed Luck Names Woundy
Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
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Faces Home House
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
He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.
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Glory Servant Virtue
Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
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Death Good Man Men
Nothing is more short-lived than pride.
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Live Pride Short
I know no disease of the soul but ignorance, a pernicious evil, the darkener of man’s life, the disturber of his reason, and common confounder of truth.
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Ignorance Men Science
Minds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause: ‘Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause.
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Applause Crowns Mind Virtue
I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.
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Affected Eloquence Foolish
It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
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Giving Men Virtue
Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.
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Good Man Heaven Men
A lily of a day Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be.
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Die Fall Flower Night Proportion
How ready is heaven to those that pray!
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Heaven Prayer Praying
Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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Force Free Nature Servile
True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
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Joy Speak Tongue
Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.
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Affliction Person Prayer Wicked

I have no urns, no dusty monuments; No broken images of ancestors, Wanting an ear, or nose; no forged tales Of long descents, to boast false honors from.

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I have no urns, no dusty monuments; No broken images of ancestors, Wanting an ear, or nose; no forged tales Of long descents, to boast false honors from.

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