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Freedom doth with degree dispense.

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To struggle when hope is banished! To live when life’s salt is gone! To dwell in a dream that’s vanished- To endure, and go calmly on!
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Dream Life Struggle Vanish
Sweet meat must have sour sauce.
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Meat Swans Sweet
I am beholden to calumny, that she hath so endeavored to belie me.-It shall make me set a surer guard on myself, and keep a better watch upon my actions.
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Action Calumny Watches
[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.
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Conceited English Plain Play
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
Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.
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Good Time Illustrate Men Stars
Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.
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Good Man Heaven Men
Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
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Frail Memories Mind
It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
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Giving Men Virtue
Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
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Imperfect Light Opinion Things
Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
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Anarchy Drinking Thinking
To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
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Change Men Want Welcome
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
True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
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Friendship Happiness Positive
I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
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Father Men Parent
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

Freedom doth with degree dispense.

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