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The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.

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All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
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Discourse Harsh Speech
It holds for good polity ever, to have that outwardly in vilest estimation, which inwardly is most dear to us.
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Dear Estimation Hypocrisy
How near to good is what is fair!
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Fairs Good Goodness Near
A good king is a public servant.
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Good King Kings Servant
Truth is man’s proper good, and the only immortal thing was given to our mortality to use.
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Men Truth Use
Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
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Anxiety Care Possession
Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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Force Free Nature Servile
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
Rich apparel has strange virtues; it makes him that hath it without means esteemed for an excellent wit; he that enjoys it with means puts the world in remembrance of his means.
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Mean Remembrance Rich World
If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
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Illness Neurosis Sick
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
In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
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Absence Hope Love Miss Sweet
True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
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Friendship Happiness Positive
Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
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Book Looks Reader
Guilt’s a terrible thing.
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Guilt Terrible Things
He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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Art Fool Inspirational

The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.

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