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How near to good is what is fair!
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Fairs Good Goodness Near
Guilt’s a terrible thing.
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Guilt Terrible Things
He threatens many that hath injured one.
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Crime Injured Threaten
I have been at my book; and am now past the craggy paths of study, and come to the flowery plains of honour and reputation
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Education Inspirational Past
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
Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
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Angry Concern Slander
I am beholden to calumny, that she hath so endeavored to belie me.-It shall make me set a surer guard on myself, and keep a better watch upon my actions.
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Action Calumny Watches
A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.
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Gratitude Men Needs
Indeed there’s a woundy luck in names.
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Indeed Luck Names Woundy
Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.
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Looks Meaning Weigh
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
Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.
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Art Men Monsters
How ready is heaven to those that pray!
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Heaven Prayer Praying
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
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
God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man’s dearer than to himself.
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Men Strange Wrecks

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