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For he that once is good, is ever great.

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God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man’s dearer than to himself.
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Men Strange Wrecks
All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
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Little Wise World
Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.
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Affliction Person Prayer Wicked
I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
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Father Men Parent
Your highest female grace is silence.
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Female Grace Silence
We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.
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Fashion Quality Women
It is the highest of earthly honors to be descended from the great and good. They alone cry out against a noble ancestry who have none of their own.
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Ancestry Honor Noble
There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
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Creeds Doctrine Good Waiting
The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
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Men Money
True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
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Fine Melancholy Perfect Wit
Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
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Clothes Countenance Wit
Nor use too swelling, or ill-sounded words . . . .
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Sounded Swelling Use Words
I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never plotted out a line. My answer hath been, would he had blotted a thousand.
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Answer Lines Mention Penend Player Writing
Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.
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Past Winning Years
O! How vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do.
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Fear Men Passion
Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.
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Heart Hypocrisy Spread

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