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Well, I will scourge those apes, And to these courteous eyes oppose a mirror, As large as is the stage whereon we act; Where they shall see the time’s deformity Anatomised in every nerve, and sinew, With constant courage, and contempt of fear.

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I’ll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news.
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False Giving News True
I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.
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Compassion Justice Weakness
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
Men that talk of their own benefits are not believed to talk of them because they have done them, but to have done them because they might talk of them.
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Benefits Done Men
The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.
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Birthday Praying Return
Many might go to heaven with half the labour they go to hell, if they would venture their industry the right way.
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Half Heaven Venture
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
He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
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Honesty Vulgar
Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
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Imperfect Light Opinion Things
Nothing is more short-lived than pride.
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Live Pride Short
In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
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Absence Hope Love Miss Sweet
The burnt child dreads the fire.
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Children Dread Fire
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
Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
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Angry Concern Slander
Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
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Court Deny Mistress
Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
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Death Good Man Men

Well, I will scourge those apes, And to these courteous eyes oppose a mirror, As large as is the stage whereon we act; Where they shall see the time’s deformity Anatomised in every nerve, and sinew, With constant courage, and contempt of fear.

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Well, I will scourge those apes, And to these courteous eyes oppose a mirror, As large as is the stage whereon we act; Where they shall see the time’s deformity Anatomised in every nerve, and sinew, With constant courage, and contempt of fear.

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