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Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.

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Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
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Beast Fats Mischief
Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
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Court Deny Mistress
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
Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!
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Age Delight Soul Wonder
Prevent your day at morning.
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Day Morning Prevent
Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.
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Heart Hypocrisy Spread
Fear to do base, unworthy things is valor; if they be one to us, to suffer them is valor too.
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Courage Suffering Valor
Our whole life is like a play.
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Life Play Whole
Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
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Disease Talking
If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.
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Art Being Poverty True
Blueness doth express trueness.
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Color Trueness
As it is a great point of art, when our matter requires it, to enlarge and veer out all sail, so to take it in and contract it is of no less praise when the argument doth ask it.
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Art Ask Matter Praise Style
Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
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Imperfect Light Opinion Things
Very few men are wise by their own council, or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself, had a fool for a master.
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Men Teaching Wise
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
Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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Force Free Nature Servile
Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
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Faces Home House
The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.
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Men Smoking
Where dost thou careless lie, Buried in ease and sloth? Knowledge that sleeps, doth die; And this security, It is the common moth, That eats on wits and arts, and oft destroys them both.
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Art Common Lying Security Sleep
A good dog deserves a good bone.
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Bones Canine Dog
Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
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Death Good Man Men
There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
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Creeds Doctrine Good Waiting
A good man will avoid the spot of any sin. The very aspersion is grievous, which makes him choose his way in his life, as he would in his journey.
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Aspersion Choose Good Journey Men
God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man’s dearer than to himself.
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Men Strange Wrecks
Ready writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing.
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Good Ready Writing
The two chief things that give a man reputation in counsel, are the opinion of his honesty, and the opinion of his wisdom; the authority of those two will persuade.
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Honesty Men Persuade Simple Two Wisdom
That I might live alone once with my gold! O, ’tis a sweet companion! kind and true: A man may trust it when his father cheats him, Brother, or friend, or wife. O wondrous pelf! That which makes all men false, is true itself.
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Alone Brother Companions Money Sweet

Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.

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