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For whose sake, henceforth, all his vows be such, As what he loves may never like too much.

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Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
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Imperfect Light Opinion Things
In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
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Absence Hope Love Miss Sweet
Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.
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Praise Strikes Strokes
I’ll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news.
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False Giving News True
Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed That sets his doors wide open to a thief, And shows the felon where his treasure lies?
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Doors Judgment Lying Treasure
Peace is never more than one thought away.
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Away Harmony More Peace
Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.
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Heart Hypocrisy Spread
Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.
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Beer Drink Wells
A good life is a main argument.
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Argument Good Inspirational Life
The burnt child dreads the fire.
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Children Dread Fire
The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.
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Infinite Men Soul
Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.
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Guilt Guilty Shame
I have no urns, no dusty monuments; No broken images of ancestors, Wanting an ear, or nose; no forged tales Of long descents, to boast false honors from.
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Broken Honor Long
[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.
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Conceited English Plain Play
How near to good is what is fair!
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Fairs Good Goodness Near
Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!
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Age Delight Soul Wonder
Nor use too swelling, or ill-sounded words . . . .
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Sounded Swelling Use Words
They, who know no evil, will suspect none.
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Evil Knows Suspect
For they have the authority of years, and out of their intermission do win to themselves a kind of grace-like newness. But the eldest of the present, and newest of the past Language, is the best.
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Intermission Newest Present Themselves
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
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
God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man’s dearer than to himself.
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Men Strange Wrecks
If men will impartially, and not asquint, look toward the offices and function of a poet, they will easily conclude to themselves the impossibility of any man’s being a good poet without first being a good man.
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Good Man Men Office
A good king is a public servant.
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Good King Kings Servant
He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.
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Glory Servant Virtue
True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
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Joy Speak Tongue
Princes that would their people should do well Must at themselves begin, as at the head; For men, by their example, pattern out Their limitations, and regard of laws: A virtuous court a world to virtue draws.
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Example Law Men Patteren People

For whose sake, henceforth, all his vows be such, As what he loves may never like too much.

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