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Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.

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Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
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Imperfect Light Opinion Things
Honor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.
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Hate Honor Men Time
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
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
Wine it is the milk of Venus, And the poet’s horse accounted: Ply it and you all are mounted.
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Horse Plies Wine
What excellent fools religion makes of men.
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Men Religion Religious
Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.
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Envy Honor Two
Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.
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Looks Meaning Weigh
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
Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
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Anarchy Drinking Thinking
Silence in woman is like speech in man.
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Men Silence Speech
How ready is heaven to those that pray!
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Heaven Prayer Praying
Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
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Passion Spiritual Understanding
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
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
Blueness doth express trueness.
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Color Trueness

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