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Hell itself must yield to industry.

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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
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
It is the highest of earthly honors to be descended from the great and good. They alone cry out against a noble ancestry who have none of their own.
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Ancestry Honor Noble
A good king is a public servant.
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Good King Kings Servant
Freedom doth with degree dispense.
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Degree Dispense Freedom
Let argument bear no unmusical sound.
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Argument Bears Sound
Poor worms, they hiss at me, whilst I at home Can be contented to applaud myself, . . . with joy To see how plump my bags are and my barns.
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Home Joy
Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.
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Art Men Monsters
Forbear, you things That stand upon the pinnacles of state, To boast your slippery height! when you do fall, You dash yourselves in pieces, ne’er to rise: And he that lends you pity, is not wise.
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Boast Fall Pieces Wise
I am beholden to calumny, that she hath so endeavored to belie me.-It shall make me set a surer guard on myself, and keep a better watch upon my actions.
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Action Calumny Watches
God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man’s dearer than to himself.
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Men Strange Wrecks
He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
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Honesty Vulgar
Honor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.
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Hate Honor Men Time
Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
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Beast Fats Mischief
Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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Force Free Nature Servile
All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
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Discourse Harsh Speech

Hell itself must yield to industry.

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