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He threatens many that hath injured one.

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That I might live alone once with my gold! O, ’tis a sweet companion! kind and true: A man may trust it when his father cheats him, Brother, or friend, or wife. O wondrous pelf! That which makes all men false, is true itself.
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Alone Brother Companions Money Sweet
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
The two chief things that give a man reputation in counsel, are the opinion of his honesty, and the opinion of his wisdom; the authority of those two will persuade.
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Honesty Men Persuade Simple Two Wisdom
I feel my griefs too, and there scarce is ground Upon my flesh t’inflict another wound. Yet dare I not complain, or wish for death With holy Paul; lest it be thought the breath Of discontent; or that these prayers be For weariness of life, not love of thee.
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Another Grief Prayer Weariness Wish Wound
A valiant man Ought not to undergo, or tempt a danger, But worthily, and by selected ways, He undertakes with reason, not by chance. His valor is the salt t’ his other virtues, They’re all unseason’d without it.
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Men Salt Way
Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace Robes loosely flowing, hair as free Such sweet neglect more taketh me Than all the adulteries of art: They strike mine eyes, but not my heart.
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Art Eye Neglect Simplicity Sweet
Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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Fortune Men
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
He threatens many that hath injured one.
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Crime Injured Threaten
No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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Glasses Men Speech
The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
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Men Money
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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Act Apes Courage Eye Mirror Time
The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
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Evil Hate Men Oppress
Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
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Dream Hate Hatred
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
Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.
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Good Man Heaven Men

He threatens many that hath injured one.

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