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Greatness of name, in the father, ofttimes helps not forth, but overwhelms the son: They stand too near one another. The shadow kills the growth.
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Father Greatness Son
How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
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Fortune Practise Sports
Man and wife make one fool.
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Marriage Men Wife
Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
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Lines Sweat Writing
I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
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Glory Greed Wealth
It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
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Giving Men Virtue
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
A good dog deserves a good bone.
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Bones Canine Dog
Truth is man’s proper good, and the only immortal thing was given to our mortality to use.
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Men Truth Use
No man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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Easily May Men Taught Wise
Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
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Boys Mean Money
Chance will not do the work. Chance sends the breeze; But if the pilot slumber at the helm, The very wind that wafts us tow’rds the port May dash us on the shoals. The steersman’s part Is vigilance, or blow it rough or smooth.
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Blow Slumber Wind
Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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Fortune Men
A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pestilence, it doth infect the houses of the brain till not a thought, or motion, in the mind, be free from the black poison of suspect.
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Black Brain House
Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
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Mind Punishment Vices
My thoughts and I were of another world.
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Another World Thoughts
They, who know no evil, will suspect none.
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Evil Knows Suspect
How near to good is what is fair!
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Fairs Good Goodness Near
Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.
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Praise Strikes Strokes
Let argument bear no unmusical sound.
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Argument Bears Sound
No simple word That shall be uttered at our mirthful board, Shall make us sad next morning; or affright The liberty that we’ll enjoy to-night.
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Morning Regret Simple
There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
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Creeds Doctrine Good Waiting
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
Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
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Angry Concern Slander
I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
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Father Men Parent
Hang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.
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Care Cat Sorrow
For whose sake, henceforth, all his vows be such, As what he loves may never like too much.
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Love May Sake

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