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O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
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Forget Sun Time
Fear to do base, unworthy things is valor; if they be one to us, to suffer them is valor too.
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Courage Suffering Valor
Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
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Leadership May Men
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
Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.
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Affliction Person Prayer Wicked
Well, I will scourge those apes, And to these courteous eyes oppose a mirror, As large as is the stage whereon we act; Where they shall see the time’s deformity Anatomised in every nerve, and sinew, With constant courage, and contempt of fear.
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Act Apes Courage Eye Mirror Time
Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
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Lines Sweat Writing
The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
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Orators Oratory Poet
Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
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Beast Flattery Tyrant
A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.
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Gratitude Men Needs
Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
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Dream Hate Hatred
Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
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Anxiety Care Possession
Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.
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Beer Drink Wells
Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
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Court Deny Mistress
A good dog deserves a good bone.
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Bones Canine Dog
I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never plotted out a line. My answer hath been, would he had blotted a thousand.
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Answer Lines Mention Penend Player Writing

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