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For love all love of other sights controls and makes one little room an everywhere
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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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If I lose at play, I blaspheme; if my fellow loses, he blasphemes. So, God is always the loser.
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Pleasure is none, if not diversified.
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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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That which attempts to elevate the ugly to the level of beauty becomes neither; but an obscenity.
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Chastity is not chastity in an old man, but a disability to be unchaste.
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As he that fears God fears nothing else, so he that sees God sees everything else.
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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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Nothing but man of all envenomed things, doth work upon itself, with inborn stings.
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Enjoyment always has a spoiling, otherwise it cannot be so.
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If thy friends be of better quality than thyself, thou mayest be sure of two things; first, they will be more careful…
— Walter Raleigh
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Thy books should, like thy friends, not many be/Yet such wherein men may thy judgment see.
— William Wycherley
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Thou has left behind Powers that will work for thee,-air, earth, and skies! There 's not a breathing of the common wind…
— William Wordsworth
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Choose thy friends like thy books, few but choice.
— James Howell
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Do not give to thy friends the most agreeable counsels, but the most advantageous.
— Henry Theodore Tuckerman
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The python dropped his head lightly for a moment on Mowgli's shoulders. "A brave heart and a courteous tongue," said he. "They…
— Rudyard Kipling
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Peace be unto thy soul; thine adversity and thine afflictions shall be but a small moment; And then, if thou endure it…
— Joseph Smith, Jr.
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No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a part of a continent, a part of the main; if…
— John Donne
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Feste. The better for my foes and the worse for my friends. Orsino. Just the contrary: the better for thy friends. Feste.…
— William Shakespeare
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