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Hang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.

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There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
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Fear Hell No Prisoner
Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
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Beast Fats Mischief
Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
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Angry Concern Slander
Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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Fortune Men
Guilt’s a terrible thing.
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Guilt Terrible Things
All concord’s born of contraries.
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Born Contradiction Contrary
It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.
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Art Giving Lying
Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.
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Looks Meaning Weigh
A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
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Good Loss Men Rise
I do honor the very flea of his dog.
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Dog Hero Honor
It strikes! one, two, Three, four, five, six. Enough, enough, dear watch, Thy pulse hath beat enough. Now sleep and rest; Would thou could’st make the time to do so too; I’ll wind thee up no more.
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Enough Pulse Sleep Time Wind
Money never made any man rich, but his mind. He that can order himself to the law of nature, is not only without the sense, but the fear of poverty.
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Law Men Mind Order Sense
Success hath made me wanton.
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Hath Made Success Wanton
True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
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Joy Speak Tongue
It is less dishonor to hear imperfectly than to speak imperfectly. The ears are excused; the understanding is not.
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Ears Speak Understanding
Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
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Art Enemy Ignorance

Hang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.

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