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Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!

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The world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
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Conceited Fools Rome Two
How near to good is what is fair!
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Fairs Good Goodness Near
Freedom doth with degree dispense.
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Degree Dispense Freedom
Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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Force Free Nature Servile
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
The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
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Men Money
[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.
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Conceited English Plain Play
Where dost thou careless lie, Buried in ease and sloth? Knowledge that sleeps, doth die; And this security, It is the common moth, That eats on wits and arts, and oft destroys them both.
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Art Common Lying Security Sleep
True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
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Joy Speak Tongue
My thoughts and I were of another world.
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Another World Thoughts
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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Men Teaching Wise
Indeed there’s a woundy luck in names.
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Indeed Luck Names Woundy
All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
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Discourse Harsh Speech
He was not of an age, but for all time!
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Age Time
There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
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Creeds Doctrine Good Waiting
Money never made any man rich, but his mind. He that can order himself to the law of nature, is not only without the sense, but the fear of poverty.
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Law Men Mind Order Sense

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