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To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.

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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
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
Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.
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Guilt Guilty Shame
The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
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Men Money
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
Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.
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Beer Drink Wells
Calumnies are answered best with silence.
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Advice Silence
Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
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Disease Talking
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
God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man’s dearer than to himself.
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Men Strange Wrecks
Your highest female grace is silence.
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Female Grace Silence
In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
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Absence Hope Love Miss Sweet
Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.
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Good Time Illustrate Men Stars
What excellent fools religion makes of men.
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Men Religion Religious
I’ll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news.
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False Giving News True
He was not of an age, but for all time!
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Age Time

To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.

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