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I do honor the very flea of his dog.

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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
A good life is a main argument.
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Argument Good Inspirational Life
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
A good man will avoid the spot of any sin. The very aspersion is grievous, which makes him choose his way in his life, as he would in his journey.
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Aspersion Choose Good Journey Men
A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
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Good Loss Men Rise
Follow a shadow, it still flies you, Seem to fly, it will pursue: So court a mistress, she denies you; Let her alone, she will court you. Say are not women truly, then, Styled but the shadows of us men?
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Men Mistress Shadow
Confound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
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Funny Humor Ideas
Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
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Anarchy Drinking Thinking
Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
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Clothes Countenance Wit
Well, I will scourge those apes, And to these courteous eyes oppose a mirror, As large as is the stage whereon we act; Where they shall see the time’s deformity Anatomised in every nerve, and sinew, With constant courage, and contempt of fear.
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Act Apes Courage Eye Mirror Time
There is no bounty to be showed to such As have real goodness: Bounty is A spice of virtue; and what virtuous act Can take effect on them that have no power Of equal habitude to apprehend it?
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Real Spices Virtue
Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
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Faces Home House
Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
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Beast Fats Mischief
Nor use too swelling, or ill-sounded words . . . .
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Sounded Swelling Use Words
Very few men are wise by their own council, or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself, had a fool for a master.
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Men Teaching Wise
No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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Glasses Men Speech

I do honor the very flea of his dog.

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