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Yea, marry, now it is somewhat, for now it is rhyme; before, it was neither rhyme nor reason.

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What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.
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Age Leave Love Rose Wine Youth
The servant may not look to be in better case than his master.
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Better Master Servant
An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.
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Ideas Man Oneself Rare
A pretty face may be enough to catch a man, but it takes character and good nature to hold him.
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Character Enough Face Himself Hold Man
I’d give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety’s sake.
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Benefit Devil Law Myself Safety
And peradventure we have more cause to thank Him for our loss than for our winning; for His wisdom better seeth what is good for us than we do ourselves.
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Loss Ourselves Reason Thankful Win
The heart that has truly loved never forgets.
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Forget Heart Love True
Pride thinks it’s own happiness shines the brighter by comparing it with the misfortunes of others.
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Bright Fortune Happiness Pride Shine Thinking
It’s wrong to deprive someone else of a pleasure so that you can enjoy one yourself, but to deprive yourself of a pleasure so that you can add to someone else’s enjoyment is an act of humanity by which you always gain more than you lose.
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Act Enjoyment Humanity Oneself Pleasure Wrong
It is possible to live for the next life and still be merry in this.
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Happiness Live Possible
Lord, give me a sense of humor so that I may take some happiness from this life and share it with others.
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Happiness Humor Life Share
To love God, which was a thing far excelling all the cunning that is possible for us in this life to obtain.
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God Life Love Possible
We cannot go to heaven in featherbeds.
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Death Heaven Journey
He travels best that knows when to return.
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Himself Return Travel
As for rosemary, I let it run all over my garden walls, not only because my bees love it but because it is the herb sacred to remembrance and to friendship, whence a sprig of it hath a dumb language.
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Friendship Garden Language Love Remember Run
Most people know nothing about learning; many despise it. Dummies reject as too hard whatever is not dumb.
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Hard Learning People

Yea, marry, now it is somewhat, for now it is rhyme; before, it was neither rhyme nor reason.

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