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

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God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man’s dearer than to himself.
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Men Strange Wrecks
I know no disease of the soul but ignorance, a pernicious evil, the darkener of man’s life, the disturber of his reason, and common confounder of truth.
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Ignorance Men Science
Tell troth and shame the devil.
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Devil Shame Truth
The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
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Orators Oratory Poet
We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.
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Fashion Quality Women
Peace is never more than one thought away.
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Away Harmony More Peace
Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
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Clothes Countenance Wit
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
He that is respectless in his courses oft sells his reputation at cheap market.
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Courses Reputation Sells
For they have the authority of years, and out of their intermission do win to themselves a kind of grace-like newness. But the eldest of the present, and newest of the past Language, is the best.
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Intermission Newest Present Themselves
I have no urns, no dusty monuments; No broken images of ancestors, Wanting an ear, or nose; no forged tales Of long descents, to boast false honors from.
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Broken Honor Long
Poets are far rarer birds than kings.
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Bird Kings Poet
Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
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Hate Hatred Ignorant
There is no bounty to be showed to such As have real goodness: Bounty is A spice of virtue; and what virtuous act Can take effect on them that have no power Of equal habitude to apprehend it?
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Real Spices Virtue
Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
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Relax Reputation Ruins
Men that talk of their own benefits are not believed to talk of them because they have done them, but to have done them because they might talk of them.
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Benefits Done Men

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