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Queen and huntress, chaste and fair Now the sun is laid to sleep, Seated in thy silver chair, State in wonted manner keep: Hesperus entreats thy light Goddess, excellently bright.
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Chair Light Queens Seated Sleep
Ready writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing.
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Good Ready Writing
I have been at my book; and am now past the craggy paths of study, and come to the flowery plains of honour and reputation
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Education Inspirational Past
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
How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
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Fortune Practise Sports
Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
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Imperfect Light Opinion Things
Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.
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Disease Mean Music
There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
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Creeds Doctrine Good Waiting
A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.
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Gratitude Men Needs
A good dog deserves a good bone.
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Bones Canine Dog
To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
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Communication Motivational Wise
Blueness doth express trueness.
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Color Trueness
Wine it is the milk of Venus, And the poet’s horse accounted: Ply it and you all are mounted.
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Horse Plies Wine
Silence in woman is like speech in man.
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Men Silence Speech
He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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Art Fool Inspirational
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

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