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Poor worms, they hiss at me, whilst I at home Can be contented to applaud myself, . . . with joy To see how plump my bags are and my barns.
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Home Joy
Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.
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Heart Hypocrisy Spread
Truth is man’s proper good, and the only immortal thing was given to our mortality to use.
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Men Truth Use
To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
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Change Men Want Welcome
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
He that is respectless in his courses oft sells his reputation at cheap market.
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Courses Reputation Sells
It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
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Giving Men Virtue
Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
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Court Deny Mistress
The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.
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Infinite Men Soul
How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
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Fortune Practise Sports
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
Language most shows a man; speak that I may see thee; it springs out of the most retired and inmost parts of us, and is the image of the parent of it, the mind. No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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Glasses Men Spring
All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
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Little Wise World
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
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
In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
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June Life Perfect Summer

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