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Rich apparel has strange virtues; it makes him that hath it without means esteemed for an excellent wit; he that enjoys it with means puts the world in remembrance of his means.
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Mean Remembrance Rich World
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
Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
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Dream Hate Hatred
Nor use too swelling, or ill-sounded words . . . .
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Sounded Swelling Use Words
If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.
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Art Being Poverty True
There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
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Fear Hell No Prisoner
The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
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Evil Hate Men Oppress
Success hath made me wanton.
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Hath Made Success Wanton
Ods me I marle what pleasure or felicity they have in taking their roguish tobacco. It is good for nothing but to choke a man, and fill him full of smoke and embers.
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Cigarette Smoke Men Smoking
For whose sake, henceforth, all his vows be such, As what he loves may never like too much.
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Love May Sake
Greatness of name, in the father, ofttimes helps not forth, but overwhelms the son: They stand too near one another. The shadow kills the growth.
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Father Greatness Son
Silence in woman is like speech in man.
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Men Silence Speech
He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.
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Glory Servant Virtue
Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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Force Free Nature Servile
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
Whosoever loves not picture is injurious to truth, and all the wisdom of poetry. Picture is the invention of heaven, the most ancient and most akin to nature. It is itself a silent work, and always one and the same habit.
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Ancient Heaven Silent
Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast, Still to be powder’d, all perfum’d. Lady, it is to be presumed, Though art’s hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound.
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Art Causes Drest Near Sweet
True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
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Friendship Happiness Positive
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
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
Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
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Boys Mean Money
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
Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.
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Beer Drink Wells
He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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Art Fool Inspirational
It strikes! one, two, Three, four, five, six. Enough, enough, dear watch, Thy pulse hath beat enough. Now sleep and rest; Would thou could’st make the time to do so too; I’ll wind thee up no more.
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Enough Pulse Sleep Time Wind
Books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction.
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Book Faithful May
For they have the authority of years, and out of their intermission do win to themselves a kind of grace-like newness. But the eldest of the present, and newest of the past Language, is the best.
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Intermission Newest Present Themselves

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