Let them call it mischief: When it is past and prospered t'will be virtue.

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Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame, a flatterer.

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O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!

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Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.

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To speak and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.

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Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak, and to speak well, are two things.

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True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.

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In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.

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Be not ashamed of thy virtues honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.

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Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.

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