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In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.

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Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.
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Art Men Monsters
If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.
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Art Being Poverty True
Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
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Disease Talking
Ambition, like a torrent, ne’er looks back; And is a swelling, and the last affection A high mind can put off; being both a rebel Unto the soul and reason, and enforceth All laws, all conscience, treads upon religion, and offereth violence to nature’s self.
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Ambition Conscience Law Rebel Self Soul
Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
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Leadership May Men
Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
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Frail Memories Mind
I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
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Father Men Parent
How ready is heaven to those that pray!
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Heaven Prayer Praying
Silence in woman is like speech in man.
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Men Silence Speech
It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.
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Art Giving Lying
The two chief things that give a man reputation in counsel, are the opinion of his honesty, and the opinion of his wisdom; the authority of those two will persuade.
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Honesty Men Persuade Simple Two Wisdom
The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
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Evil Hate Men Oppress
Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.
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Good Time Illustrate Men Stars
The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.
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Men Smoking
If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
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Illness Neurosis Sick
Nor shall our cups make any guilty men; But at our parting, we will be, as when We innocently met.
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Cup Drinking Men

In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.

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