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Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.

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Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.
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Folly Impudence Rudeness
Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
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Frail Memories Mind
If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.
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Art Being Poverty True
Whosoever loves not picture is injurious to truth, and all the wisdom of poetry. Picture is the invention of heaven, the most ancient and most akin to nature. It is itself a silent work, and always one and the same habit.
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Ancient Heaven Silent
Blueness doth express trueness.
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Color Trueness
Freedom doth with degree dispense.
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Degree Dispense Freedom
There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
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Creeds Doctrine Good Waiting
When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity.
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Enemy Grief Men
Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
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Court Deny Mistress
Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.
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Disease Mean Music
O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
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Forget Sun Time
Minds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause: ‘Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause.
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Applause Crowns Mind Virtue
To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
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Communication Motivational Wise
Honor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.
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Hate Honor Men Time
In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
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Absence Hope Love Miss Sweet
Fortune, that favors fools.
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Favors Fool Fortune

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