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Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.

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Poets are far rarer birds than kings.
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Bird Kings Poet
To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
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Change Men Want Welcome
It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.
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Art Giving Lying
Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!
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Age Delight Soul Wonder
A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.
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Gratitude Men Needs
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
It holds for good polity ever, to have that outwardly in vilest estimation, which inwardly is most dear to us.
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Dear Estimation Hypocrisy
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 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
Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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Force Free Nature Servile
He that is respectless in his courses oft sells his reputation at cheap market.
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Courses Reputation Sells
The world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
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Conceited Fools Rome Two
Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.
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Affliction Person Prayer Wicked
If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
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Illness Neurosis Sick
The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.
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Infinite Men Soul
Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.
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Looks Meaning Weigh

Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.

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