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Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.

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It is a note Of upstart greatness to observe and watch For these poor trifles, which the noble mind Neglects and scorns.
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Greatness Mind Scorn Watches
A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.
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Gratitude Men Needs
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
All concord’s born of contraries.
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Born Contradiction Contrary
The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
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Evil Hate Men Oppress
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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Father Greatness Son
One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
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Character Trouble Women
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
True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
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Joy Speak Tongue
Many might go to heaven with half the labour they go to hell, if they would venture their industry the right way.
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Half Heaven Venture
Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!
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Age Delight Soul Wonder
Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
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Passion Spiritual Understanding
We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.
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Fashion Quality Women
Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
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Anxiety Care Possession
True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
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Friendship Happiness Positive
I know no disease of the soul but ignorance, a pernicious evil, the darkener of man’s life, the disturber of his reason, and common confounder of truth.
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Ignorance Men Science

Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.

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