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

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True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
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Friendship Happiness Positive
It is the highest of earthly honors to be descended from the great and good. They alone cry out against a noble ancestry who have none of their own.
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Ancestry Honor Noble
To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
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Change Men Want Welcome
Confound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
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Funny Humor Ideas
In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
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Absence Hope Love Miss 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
Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
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Passion Spiritual Understanding
Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.
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Art Men Monsters
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
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
I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.
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Compassion Justice Weakness
Hell itself must yield to industry.
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Hell Industry Yield
Aristotle was the first accurate critic and truest judge nay, the greatest philosopher the world ever had; for he noted the vices of all knowledges, in all creatures, and out of many men’s perfections in a science he formed still one Art.
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Art Judging Men
He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.
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Glory Servant Virtue
Nor shall our cups make any guilty men; But at our parting, we will be, as when We innocently met.
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Cup Drinking Men
Forbear, you things That stand upon the pinnacles of state, To boast your slippery height! when you do fall, You dash yourselves in pieces, ne’er to rise: And he that lends you pity, is not wise.
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Boast Fall Pieces Wise

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

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

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