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Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.

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What excellent fools religion makes of men.
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Men Religion Religious
True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
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Joy Speak Tongue
How near to good is what is fair!
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Fairs Good Goodness Near
True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
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Friendship Happiness Positive
Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
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Dream Hate Hatred
Many punishments sometimes, and in some cases, as much discredit a prince as many funerals a physician.
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Funeral Physicians Punishment
If you succeed not, cast not away the quills yet, nor scratch the wainscot, beat not the poor desk, but bring all to the forge and file again; turn it new.
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Crafts Scratches Succeed
Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
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Death Good Man Men
A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
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Good Loss Men Rise
The burnt child dreads the fire.
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Children Dread Fire
Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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Force Free Nature Servile
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
A good poet’s made as well as born.
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Born Made Poet
Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.
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Good Time Illustrate Men Stars
Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
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Anxiety Care Possession
Sweet Swan of Avon! What a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear.
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Sight Swans Sweet

Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.

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