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

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Men that talk of their own benefits are not believed to talk of them because they have done them, but to have done them because they might talk of them.
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Benefits Done Men
Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.
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Envy Honor Two
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
When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity.
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Enemy Grief Men
Whosoever loves not picture is injurious to truth, and all the wisdom of poetry. Picture is the invention of heaven, the most ancient and most akin to nature. It is itself a silent work, and always one and the same habit.
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Ancient Heaven Silent
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
Man and wife make one fool.
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Marriage Men Wife
God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man’s dearer than to himself.
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Men Strange Wrecks
I now think, Love is rather deaf, than blind, For else it could not be, That she, Whom I adore so much, should so slight me, And cast my love behind.
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Blind Love Slight Thinking
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
True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
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Fine Melancholy Perfect Wit
Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
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Angry Concern Slander
He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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Art Fool Inspirational
It is a note Of upstart greatness to observe and watch For these poor trifles, which the noble mind Neglects and scorns.
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Greatness Mind Scorn Watches
Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
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Anarchy Drinking Thinking
To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
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Communication Motivational Wise

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

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