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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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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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There is in every miracle a silent chiding of the world, and a tacit reprehension of them who require, or who need…
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The power of one fair face makes my love sublime, for it has weaned my heart from low desires.
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