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

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To struggle when hope is banished! To live when life’s salt is gone! To dwell in a dream that’s vanished- To endure, and go calmly on!
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Dream Life Struggle Vanish
A good dog deserves a good bone.
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Bones Canine Dog
Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!
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May Poetry War
Wine it is the milk of Venus, And the poet’s horse accounted: Ply it and you all are mounted.
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Horse Plies Wine
I now think, Love is rather deaf, than blind, For else it could not be, That she, Whom I adore so much, should so slight me, And cast my love behind.
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Blind Love Slight Thinking
He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.
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Glory Servant Virtue
Where dost thou careless lie, Buried in ease and sloth? Knowledge that sleeps, doth die; And this security, It is the common moth, That eats on wits and arts, and oft destroys them both.
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Art Common Lying Security Sleep
Poets are far rarer birds than kings.
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Bird Kings Poet
Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast, Still to be powder’d, all perfum’d. Lady, it is to be presumed, Though art’s hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound.
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Art Causes Drest Near Sweet
As it is a great point of art, when our matter requires it, to enlarge and veer out all sail, so to take it in and contract it is of no less praise when the argument doth ask it.
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Art Ask Matter Praise Style
In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
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June Life Perfect Summer
The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
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Men Money
It is as great a spite to be praised in the wrong place, and by a wrong person, as can be done to a noble nature.
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Done Noble Person Wrong
A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
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Good Loss Men Rise
Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.
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Beer Drink Wells
How near to good is what is fair!
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Fairs Good Goodness Near

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

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