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He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.

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Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.
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Disease Mean Music
Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
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Boys Mean Money
[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.
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Conceited English Plain Play
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
True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
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Friendship Happiness Positive
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
Ambition, like a torrent, ne’er looks back; And is a swelling, and the last affection A high mind can put off; being both a rebel Unto the soul and reason, and enforceth All laws, all conscience, treads upon religion, and offereth violence to nature’s self.
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Ambition Conscience Law Rebel Self Soul
The burnt child dreads the fire.
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Children Dread Fire
Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.
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Art Men Monsters
You learn nothing about someone by the way they win the fight, you learn everything about the way they lose and keep coming back.
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Art Fighting Winning
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
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
Blueness doth express trueness.
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Color Trueness
Language most shows a man; speak that I may see thee; it springs out of the most retired and inmost parts of us, and is the image of the parent of it, the mind. No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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Glasses Men Spring
The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.
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Infinite Men Soul
For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries: to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of his own style.
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Exercise Men Writing

He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.

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