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At most, the greatest persons are but great wens, and excrescences; men of wit and delightful conversation, but as morals for ornament,…
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There is nothing that God hath established in a constant course of nature, and which therefore is done every day, but would…
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Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it.
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Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.
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Pleasure is none, if not diversified.
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That which attempts to elevate the ugly to the level of beauty becomes neither; but an obscenity.
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How many times go we to comedies, to masques, to places of great and noble resort, nay even to church only to…
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We love and understand talent; we wish it be within us. The truly gifted, those exceptional few, must wait for the world…
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Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death.
— Angela Carter
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This Universe is made by God by one universal rule: everybody has a standard of birth, growth, and death, except man. God…
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Sleep is pain's easiest salve, and doth fulfill all the offices of death, except to kill
— John Donne
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The only way out is the way through, just as you cannot escape death except by dying. Being unable to write, you…
— Howard Nemerov
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I've been accused of every death except the casualty list of the World War.
— Al Capone
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There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife…
— Ernest Hemingway
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Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.
— Bill Shankly
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