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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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Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.
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Looks Meaning Weigh
It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
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Giving Men Virtue
Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!
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May Poetry War
The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.
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Infinite Men Soul
Let argument bear no unmusical sound.
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Argument Bears Sound
Money never made any man rich, but his mind. He that can order himself to the law of nature, is not only without the sense, but the fear of poverty.
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Law Men Mind Order Sense
You are not now to think what’s best to do, As in beginnings, but what must be done, Being thus enter’d; and slip no advantage That may secure you. Let them call it mischief; When it is past, and prosper’d , ’twill be virtue.
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Mischief Past Virtue
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
To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
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Change Men Want Welcome
True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
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Friendship Happiness Positive
Prevent your day at morning.
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Day Morning Prevent
He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
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Honesty Vulgar
For he that once is good, is ever great.
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Good Greatness Once
Princes that would their people should do well Must at themselves begin, as at the head; For men, by their example, pattern out Their limitations, and regard of laws: A virtuous court a world to virtue draws.
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Example Law Men Patteren People
If men will impartially, and not asquint, look toward the offices and function of a poet, they will easily conclude to themselves the impossibility of any man’s being a good poet without first being a good man.
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Good Man Men Office
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

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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