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I do honor the very flea of his dog.

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How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
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Fortune Practise Sports
Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
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Death Good Man Men
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
He that is respectless in his courses oft sells his reputation at cheap market.
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Courses Reputation Sells
All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
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Discourse Harsh Speech
Honor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.
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Hate Honor Men Time
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
Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
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Passion Spiritual Understanding
Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.
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Art Men Monsters
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
The way to rise is to obey and please.
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Please Success Way
If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
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Illness Neurosis Sick
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
Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed That sets his doors wide open to a thief, And shows the felon where his treasure lies?
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Doors Judgment Lying Treasure
Guilt’s a terrible thing.
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Guilt Terrible Things
It holds for good polity ever, to have that outwardly in vilest estimation, which inwardly is most dear to us.
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Dear Estimation Hypocrisy

I do honor the very flea of his dog.

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