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Your hearts are mighty, your skins are whole.
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For so work the honey bees, creatures that by a rule in nature teach the act of order to a peopled kingdom.
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Discuss unto me: art thou officer, Or art thou base, common, and popular?
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For this relief, much thanks
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The due of honor in no point omit.
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The common curse of mankind, folly and ignorance, be thine in great revenue!
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Tis a cruelty to load a fallen man.
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Two loves I have, of comfort and despair, Which like two spirits do suggest me still: The better angel is a man right fair, The worser spirit a woman coloured ill.
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While thou livest keep a good tongue in thy head.
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A poor thing, perhaps, but my own.
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I can no other answer make, but, thanks, and thanks.
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Grace and remembrance be to you both.
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The heavens themselves, the planets, and this centre Observe degree, priority, and place, Insisture, course, proportion, season, form, Office, and custom, in all line of order.
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O sleep! O gentle sleep! Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down And steep my senses in forgetfulness? Why rather, sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee, And hush'd with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber, Than in the perfum'd chambers of the great, Under the canopies of costly state, And lull'd with sound of sweetest melody?
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Highly fed and lowly taught.
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To business that we love we rise betime, and go to't with delight.
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I will chide no breather in the world but myself, against whom I know most faults.
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I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.
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He took the bride about the neck and kissed her lips with such a clamorous smack that at the parting all the church did echo.
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The urging of that word, judgment, hath bred a kind of remorse in me.
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Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water.
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The one I love is the son of the one I hate!
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Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.
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He shall spurn fate, scorn death, and bear His hopes 'bove wisdom, grace and fear: And you all know, security Is mortals' chiefest enemy.