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I feel my griefs too, and there scarce is ground Upon my flesh t’inflict another wound. Yet dare I not complain, or wish for death With holy Paul; lest it be thought the breath Of discontent; or that these prayers be For weariness of life, not love of thee.

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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
Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
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Ambition Inspiration Looks
The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.
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Men Smoking
Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
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Hate Hatred Ignorant
Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
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Beast Fats Mischief
Tis no sin love’s fruits to steal; But the sweet thefts to reveal; To be taken, to be seen, These have crimes accounted been.
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Fruit Sweet Taken
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
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
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
I feel my griefs too, and there scarce is ground Upon my flesh t’inflict another wound. Yet dare I not complain, or wish for death With holy Paul; lest it be thought the breath Of discontent; or that these prayers be For weariness of life, not love of thee.
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Another Grief Prayer Weariness Wish Wound
To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.
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Long Pleasure Treasure
One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
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Character Trouble Women
For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries: to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of his own style.
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Exercise Men Writing
Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.
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Art Men Monsters
No simple word That shall be uttered at our mirthful board, Shall make us sad next morning; or affright The liberty that we’ll enjoy to-night.
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Morning Regret Simple
Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.
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Heart Hypocrisy Spread

I feel my griefs too, and there scarce is ground Upon my flesh t’inflict another wound. Yet dare I not complain, or wish for death With holy Paul; lest it be thought the breath Of discontent; or that these prayers be For weariness of life, not love of thee.

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I feel my griefs too, and there scarce is ground Upon my flesh t’inflict another wound. Yet dare I not complain, or wish for death With holy Paul; lest it be thought the breath Of discontent; or that these prayers be For weariness of life, not love of thee.

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