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Greatness of name, in the father, ofttimes helps not forth, but overwhelms the son: They stand too near one another. The shadow kills the growth.

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He that is respectless in his courses oft sells his reputation at cheap market.
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Courses Reputation Sells
A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
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Eye Government Letter
Wine it is the milk of Venus, And the poet’s horse accounted: Ply it and you all are mounted.
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Horse Plies Wine
I have been at my book; and am now past the craggy paths of study, and come to the flowery plains of honour and reputation
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Education Inspirational Past
A good dog deserves a good bone.
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Bones Canine Dog
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
The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.
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Birthday Praying Return
God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man’s dearer than to himself.
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Men Strange Wrecks
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
What excellent fools religion makes of men.
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Men Religion Religious
Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.
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Praise Strikes Strokes
For whose sake, henceforth, all his vows be such, As what he loves may never like too much.
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Love May Sake
And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow’d them with her odorous foot.
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Feet Flower Roots
The way to rise is to obey and please.
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Please Success Way
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
Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.
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Beer Drink Wells
O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
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Forget Sun Time
Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
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Anxiety Care Possession
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
The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
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Orators Oratory Poet
He threatens many that hath injured one.
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Crime Injured Threaten
Whosoever loves not picture is injurious to truth, and all the wisdom of poetry. Picture is the invention of heaven, the most ancient and most akin to nature. It is itself a silent work, and always one and the same habit.
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Ancient Heaven Silent
Fear to do base, unworthy things is valor; if they be one to us, to suffer them is valor too.
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Courage Suffering Valor
Silence in woman is like speech in man.
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Men Silence Speech
Calumnies are answered best with silence.
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Advice Silence
I do honor the very flea of his dog.
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Dog Hero Honor
If men will impartially, and not asquint, look toward the offices and function of a poet, they will easily conclude to themselves the impossibility of any man’s being a good poet without first being a good man.
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Good Man Men Office

Greatness of name, in the father, ofttimes helps not forth, but overwhelms the son: They stand too near one another. The shadow kills the growth.

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Greatness of name, in the father, ofttimes helps not forth, but overwhelms the son: They stand too near one another. The shadow kills the growth.

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