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Ambition, like a torrent, ne’er looks back; And is a swelling, and the last affection A high mind can put off; being both a rebel Unto the soul and reason, and enforceth All laws, all conscience, treads upon religion, and offereth violence to nature’s self.

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Sweet Swan of Avon! What a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear.
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Sight Swans Sweet
It is the highest of earthly honors to be descended from the great and good. They alone cry out against a noble ancestry who have none of their own.
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Ancestry Honor Noble
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
There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
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Creeds Doctrine Good Waiting
One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
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Character Trouble Women
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
Hang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.
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Care Cat Sorrow
The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
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Men Money
He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
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Honesty Vulgar
The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
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Acknowledge Ass Devil
Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
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Clothes Countenance Wit
Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
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Beast Fats Mischief
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
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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Blow Slumber Wind
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
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

Ambition, like a torrent, ne’er looks back; And is a swelling, and the last affection A high mind can put off; being both a rebel Unto the soul and reason, and enforceth All laws, all conscience, treads upon religion, and offereth violence to nature’s self.

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Ambition, like a torrent, ne’er looks back; And is a swelling, and the last affection A high mind can put off; being both a rebel Unto the soul and reason, and enforceth All laws, all conscience, treads upon religion, and offereth violence to nature’s self.

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