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What excellent fools religion makes of men.

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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
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
A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pestilence, it doth infect the houses of the brain till not a thought, or motion, in the mind, be free from the black poison of suspect.
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Black Brain House
A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
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Eye Government Letter
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
All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
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Discourse Harsh Speech
It strikes! one, two, Three, four, five, six. Enough, enough, dear watch, Thy pulse hath beat enough. Now sleep and rest; Would thou could’st make the time to do so too; I’ll wind thee up no more.
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Enough Pulse Sleep Time Wind
I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.
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Compassion Justice Weakness
Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.
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Good Man Heaven Men
There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
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Fear Hell No Prisoner
Calumnies are answered best with silence.
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Advice Silence
Nothing is more short-lived than pride.
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Live Pride Short
Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
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Death Good Man Men
In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
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Absence Hope Love Miss Sweet
Tell troth and shame the devil.
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Devil Shame Truth
Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
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Hate Hatred Ignorant

What excellent fools religion makes of men.

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