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I do honor the very flea of his dog.

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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
Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I’ll not look for wine.
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Food Romantic Wine
Where dost thou careless lie, Buried in ease and sloth? Knowledge that sleeps, doth die; And this security, It is the common moth, That eats on wits and arts, and oft destroys them both.
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Art Common Lying Security Sleep
I know no disease of the soul but ignorance, a pernicious evil, the darkener of man’s life, the disturber of his reason, and common confounder of truth.
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Ignorance Men Science
No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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Glasses Men Speech
Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
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Mind Punishment Vices
Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.
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Art Men Monsters
Freedom doth with degree dispense.
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Degree Dispense Freedom
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
Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
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Hate Hatred Ignorant
O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
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Forget Sun Time
Hang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.
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Care Cat Sorrow
Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.
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Heart Hypocrisy Spread
The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.
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Infinite Men Soul
I do honor the very flea of his dog.
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Dog Hero Honor
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

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