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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If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
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Hell itself must yield to industry.
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How near to good is what is fair!
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I do honor the very flea of his dog.
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I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.
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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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Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
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There is no bounty to be showed to such As have real goodness: Bounty is A spice of virtue; and what virtuous act Can take effect on them that have no power Of equal habitude to apprehend it?
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How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
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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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True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
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Very few men are wise by their own council, or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself, had a fool for a master.
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