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The burnt child dreads the fire.

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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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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
We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.

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We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.
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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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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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Chance will not do the work. Chance sends the breeze; But if the pilot slumber at the helm, The very wind that wafts us tow’rds the port May dash us on the shoals. The steersman’s part Is vigilance, or blow it rough or smooth.
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Slumber
Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.

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Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.
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Cutting Whispering
Poets are far rarer birds than kings.

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Poets are far rarer birds than kings.
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Kings
Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need

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Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
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Needs
To struggle when hope is banished! To live when life’s salt is gone! To dwell in a dream that’s vanished- To endure, and go calmly on!
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Vanish
Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.

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Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
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Lines
Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.

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Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.
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Good Time Illustrate
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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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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Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.

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Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.
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Hypocrisy
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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Son
I have discovered that a famed familiarity in great ones is a note of certain usurpation on the less; for great and popular men feign themselves to be servants to others to make those slaves to them.
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Popularity
It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.

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It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
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It is as great a spite to be praised in the wrong place, and by a wrong person, as can be done to a noble nature.
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Noble

The burnt child dreads the fire.

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