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And thus I clothe my naked villainy
With old odd ends, stol'n forth
of holy writ;
And seem a saint, when most I play
the devil.
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Assume a virtue, if you have it not.
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Be great in act, as you have been in
thought.
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Blow, blow, thou winter wind
Thou art not so unkind,
As man's ingratitude.
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For they are yet ear-kissing arguments.
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Conversation should be pleasant without
scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned
without conceitedness, novel without falsehood.
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Cowards die many times before their
deaths,
The valiant never taste of death
but once.
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Give every man thine ear, but few thy
voice; take each man's censure but reserve thy judgement.
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Glory is like a circle in the water,
Which never ceaseth to enlarge
itself,
Till by broad spreading it disperses
to naught.
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God bless thee; and put meekness in
thy mind, love, charity, obedience, and true duty!
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He is winding the watch of his wit;
by and by it will strike.
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He who has injured thee was either
stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare
thyself.
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His life was gentle; and the elements
So mixed in him, that Nature might
stand up,
And say to all the world, THIS
WAS A MAN!
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How poor are they who have not patience!
What wound did ever heal but by degrees.
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How use doth breed a habit in a man.
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I am not bound to please thee with
my answers.
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I did never know so full a voice issue
from so empty a heart: but the saying is true 'The empty vessel makes the
greatest sound'.
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I dote on his very absence.
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I feel within me a peace above all
earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience.
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I hate ingratitude more in a man
than lying, vainness, babbling,
drunkenness,
or any taint of vice whose strong
corruption
inhabits our frail blood.
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I must be cruel only to be kind;
Thus bad begins, and worse remains
behind.
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I pray thee cease thy counsel,
Which falls into mine ears as profitless
as water in a sieve.
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I wasted time, and now doth time waste
me.
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I wish you well and so I take my leave,
I Pray you know me when we meet
again.
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Ill deeds are doubled with an evil
word.
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In a false quarrel there is no true
valour.
In peace there's nothing so becomes
a man as modest stillness and humility.
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In time we hate that which we often
fear.
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It is not enough to help the feeble
up, but to support him after.
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Like as the waves make towards the
pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end.
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A wretched soul, bruised with adversity,
We bid be quiet when we hear it
cry;
But were we burdened with like
weight of pain,
As much or more we should ourselves
complain.
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Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to
none.
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Love looks not with the eyes, but with
the mind.
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Mine honour is my life; both grow in
one; take honour from me and my life is done.
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Nothing emboldens sin so much as mercy.
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Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie.
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Pity is the virture of the law, and
none but tyrants use it cruelly.
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Praising what is lost makes the remembrance
dear.
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Strong reasons make strong actions.
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Suspicion always haunts the guilty
mind.
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The sands are number'd that make up
my life.
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The soul of this man is in his clothes.
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Though I am not naturally honest, I
am so sometimes by chance.
* Thy words, I grant are bigger, for I wear not, my dagger in my mouth.