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Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!

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Queen and huntress, chaste and fair Now the sun is laid to sleep, Seated in thy silver chair, State in wonted manner keep: Hesperus entreats thy light Goddess, excellently bright.
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Chair Light Queens Seated Sleep
He was not of an age, but for all time!
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Age Time
And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow’d them with her odorous foot.
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Feet Flower Roots
Silence in woman is like speech in man.
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Men Silence Speech
Prevent your day at morning.
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Day Morning Prevent
I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
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Father Men Parent
He that is respectless in his courses oft sells his reputation at cheap market.
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Courses Reputation Sells
All concord’s born of contraries.
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Born Contradiction Contrary
O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
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Forget Sun Time
Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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Fortune Men
Nor use too swelling, or ill-sounded words . . . .
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Sounded Swelling Use Words
Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.
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Past Winning Years
Let argument bear no unmusical sound.
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Argument Bears Sound
Minds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause: ‘Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause.
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Applause Crowns Mind Virtue
Many punishments sometimes, and in some cases, as much discredit a prince as many funerals a physician.
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Funeral Physicians Punishment
Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
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Relax Reputation Ruins

Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!

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