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Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.

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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
Tis no sin love’s fruits to steal; But the sweet thefts to reveal; To be taken, to be seen, These have crimes accounted been.
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Fruit Sweet Taken
I have discovered that a famed familiarity in great ones is a note of certain usurpation on the less; for great and popular men feign themselves to be servants to others to make those slaves to them.
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Men Popularity Slave
Our whole life is like a play.
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Life Play Whole
He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.
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Glory Servant Virtue
God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man’s dearer than to himself.
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Men Strange Wrecks
Ready writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing.
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Good Ready Writing
My thoughts and I were of another world.
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Another World Thoughts
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
One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
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Character Trouble Women
[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.
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Conceited English Plain Play
He threatens many that hath injured one.
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Crime Injured Threaten
The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
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Orators Oratory Poet
No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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Glasses Men Speech
Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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Fortune Men
Freedom doth with degree dispense.
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Degree Dispense Freedom

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