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My thoughts and I were of another world.

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What excellent fools religion makes of men.
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Men Religion Religious
Sweet meat must have sour sauce.
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Meat Swans Sweet
The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
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Orators Oratory Poet
Ready writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing.
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Good Ready Writing
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
A good man will avoid the spot of any sin. The very aspersion is grievous, which makes him choose his way in his life, as he would in his journey.
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Aspersion Choose Good Journey Men
Language most shows a man; speak that I may see thee; it springs out of the most retired and inmost parts of us, and is the image of the parent of it, the mind. No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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Glasses Men Spring
Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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Fortune Men
O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
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Forget Sun Time
Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.
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Cutting Men Whispering
The burnt child dreads the fire.
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Children Dread Fire
True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
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Joy Speak Tongue
Poor worms, they hiss at me, whilst I at home Can be contented to applaud myself, . . . with joy To see how plump my bags are and my barns.
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Home Joy
He was not of an age, but for all time!
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Age Time
The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.
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Men Smoking
Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
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Frail Memories Mind

My thoughts and I were of another world.

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