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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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Fashion Quality Women
A lily of a day Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be.
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Die Fall Flower Night Proportion
Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace Robes loosely flowing, hair as free Such sweet neglect more taketh me Than all the adulteries of art: They strike mine eyes, but not my heart.
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Art Eye Neglect Simplicity Sweet
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
The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.
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Men Smoking
Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
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Book Looks Reader
Honor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.
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Hate Honor Men Time
Peace is never more than one thought away.
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Away Harmony More Peace
Freedom doth with degree dispense.
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Degree Dispense Freedom
Blueness doth express trueness.
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Color Trueness
They, who know no evil, will suspect none.
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Evil Knows Suspect
Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
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Clothes Countenance Wit
Nor for my peace will I go far, As wanderers do, that still do roam, But make my strengths, such as they are, Here in my bosom, and at home.
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Home Stills Wanderers
Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
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Anarchy Drinking Thinking
I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
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Father Men Parent
The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.
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Birthday Praying Return
I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never plotted out a line. My answer hath been, would he had blotted a thousand.
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Answer Lines Mention Penend Player Writing
I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
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Glory Greed Wealth
Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
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Boys Mean Money
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 Conscience Law Rebel Self Soul
Now we are all fallen, youth from their fear, And age from that which bred it, good example.
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Age Example Fallen Good Youth
… the best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle.
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Anchors Needs Sea
Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
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Dream Hate Hatred
True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
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Friendship Happiness Positive
The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
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Orators Oratory Poet
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
God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man’s dearer than to himself.
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Men Strange Wrecks

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