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Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.

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One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
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Character Trouble Women
… the best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle.
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Anchors Needs Sea
Men that talk of their own benefits are not believed to talk of them because they have done them, but to have done them because they might talk of them.
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Benefits Done Men
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
In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
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June Life Perfect Summer
A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pestilence, it doth infect the houses of the brain till not a thought, or motion, in the mind, be free from the black poison of suspect.
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Black Brain House
Money never made any man rich, but his mind. He that can order himself to the law of nature, is not only without the sense, but the fear of poverty.
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Law Men Mind Order Sense
What excellent fools religion makes of men.
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Men Religion Religious
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
Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
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Passion Spiritual Understanding
Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
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Relax Reputation Ruins
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
Drink today, and drown all sorrow; You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow; Best, while you have it, use your breath; There is no drinking after death.
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Drinking Sorrow Use
Silence in woman is like speech in man.
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Men Silence Speech
Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.
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Beer Drink Wells
Hell itself must yield to industry.
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Hell Industry Yield

Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.

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