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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
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
It holds for good polity ever, to have that outwardly in vilest estimation, which inwardly is most dear to us.
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Dear Estimation Hypocrisy
There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
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Creeds Doctrine Good Waiting
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
For they have the authority of years, and out of their intermission do win to themselves a kind of grace-like newness. But the eldest of the present, and newest of the past Language, is the best.
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Intermission Newest Present Themselves
Success hath made me wanton.
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Hath Made Success Wanton
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
Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
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Mind Punishment Vices
I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.
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Affected Eloquence Foolish
Hang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.
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Care Cat Sorrow
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
Greatness of name, in the father, ofttimes helps not forth, but overwhelms the son: They stand too near one another. The shadow kills the growth.
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Father Greatness Son
A good life is a main argument.
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Argument Good Inspirational Life
Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.
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Cutting Men Whispering
The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
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Orators Oratory Poet

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