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He threatens many that hath injured one.

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Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.
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Past Winning Years
Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!
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May Poetry War
Tis no sin love’s fruits to steal; But the sweet thefts to reveal; To be taken, to be seen, These have crimes accounted been.
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Fruit Sweet Taken
Truth is man’s proper good, and the only immortal thing was given to our mortality to use.
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Men Truth Use
He threatens many that hath injured one.
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Crime Injured Threaten
The world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
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Conceited Fools Rome Two
Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
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Angry Concern Slander
I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
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Father Men Parent
Sweet Swan of Avon! What a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear.
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Sight Swans Sweet
Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.
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Praise Strikes Strokes
Minds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause: ‘Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause.
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Applause Crowns Mind Virtue
True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
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Fine Melancholy Perfect Wit
The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
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Dignity Life Losing
What excellent fools religion makes of men.
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Men Religion Religious
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
Many punishments sometimes, and in some cases, as much discredit a prince as many funerals a physician.
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Funeral Physicians Punishment

He threatens many that hath injured one.

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