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

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Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
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Anxiety Care Possession
He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
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Honesty Vulgar
It is a note Of upstart greatness to observe and watch For these poor trifles, which the noble mind Neglects and scorns.
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Greatness Mind Scorn Watches
Your highest female grace is silence.
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Female Grace Silence
Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
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Passion Spiritual Understanding
Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
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Frail Memories Mind
Our whole life is like a play.
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Life Play Whole
It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
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Giving Men Virtue
Minds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause: ‘Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause.
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Applause Crowns Mind Virtue
Chance will not do the work. Chance sends the breeze; But if the pilot slumber at the helm, The very wind that wafts us tow’rds the port May dash us on the shoals. The steersman’s part Is vigilance, or blow it rough or smooth.
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Blow Slumber Wind
Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.
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Disease Mean Music
Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.
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Good Man Heaven Men
Ods me I marle what pleasure or felicity they have in taking their roguish tobacco. It is good for nothing but to choke a man, and fill him full of smoke and embers.
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Cigarette Smoke Men Smoking
Tell troth and shame the devil.
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Devil Shame Truth
Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
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Relax Reputation Ruins
You are not now to think what’s best to do, As in beginnings, but what must be done, Being thus enter’d; and slip no advantage That may secure you. Let them call it mischief; When it is past, and prosper’d , ’twill be virtue.
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Mischief Past Virtue

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

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