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• Be thou good thyself, and let people speak evil of thee; it is better than to be wicked, and that they should consider thee as good.

  Saadi

  People, Evil, Gossip

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• Full nakedness! All my joys are due to thee, as souls unbodied, bodies unclothed must be, to taste whole joys.

  John Donne

  Joy, Soul, Body

  John Donne (1993). “Selected Poems”, p.38, Courier Corporation

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• Help thyself, and God will help thee.

  George Herbert

  Helping, Gods Will, God Helps Those Who Help Themselves

  George Herbert (1871). “The English Poems of George Herbert: Together with His Collection of Proverbs Entitled Jacula Prudentum”, p.239

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• O Blackbird! sing me something well: While all the neighbors shoot thee round, I keep smooth plats of fruitful ground, Where thou may'st warble, eat and dwell.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  May, Neighbor, Smooth

  Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron, Alfred Lord Tennyson (2014). “Fifty Poems”, p.91, Cambridge University Press

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• As the husband is the wife is; thou art mated with a clown, As the grossness of his nature will have weight to drag thee down.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Art, Husband, Wife

  Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron, Alfred Lord Tennyson (2014). “Fifty Poems”, p.115, Cambridge University Press

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• The iron hand of necessity commands, and her stern decree is supreme law, to which the gods even must submit. In deep silence rules the uncounselled sister of eternal fate. Whatever she lays upon thee, endure; perform whatever she commands.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Fate, Hands, Law

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• If thou art beautiful, and youth and thought endue thee with all truth-be strong;--be worthy of the grace of God.

  William Wordsworth

  Beauty, Beautiful, Art

  William Wordsworth (1994). “The Collected Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.402, Wordsworth Editions

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• I find my familiarity with thee has bred contempt.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Contempt, Familiarity

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.116, Wordsworth Editions

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• If thou workest at that which is before thee ... expecting nothing, fearing nothing, but satisfied with thy present activity according to Nature, and with heroic truth in every word and sound which thou utterest, thou wilt live happy. And there is no man who is able to prevent this.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Men, Able, Sound

  Marcus Aurelius (2016). “Meditations”, p.20, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• Everything harmonizes with me, which is harmonious to thee, o Universe. Nothing for me is too early or too late, which is in due time for thee.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Too Late, Harmony, Harmonious

  Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2015). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Golden Sayings Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.18, Lulu.com

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• Reader, I wish thee Health, Wealth, Happiness, And may kind Heaven thy Year's Industry bless.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Years, Heaven, Wish

  Benjamin Franklin (1849). “Poor Richard's almanac for 1850-52”, p.46

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• Be not niggardly of what costs thee nothing, as courtesy, counsel, & countenance.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Cost, Courtesy, Poor Richard

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.71, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• Age, I do abhor thee, youth, I do adore thee.

  William Shakespeare

  Age, Youth, Adore

  'The Passionate Pilgrim' (1599), 12

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• Crabbed age and youth cannot live together; Youth is full of pleasure, age is full of care; Youth like summer morn, age like winter weather; Youth like summer brave, age like winter bare. Youth is full sport, age's breath is short; Youth is nimble, age is lame; Youth is hot and bold, age is weak and cold; Youth is wild, age is tame. Age, I do abhor thee; youth, I do adore thee.

  William Shakespeare

  Summer, Sports, Winter

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Illustrated)”, p.6851, Delphi Classics

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• A wretched soul, bruised with adversity, We bid be quiet when we hear it cry. But were we burd'ned with like weight of pain, As much or more we should ourselves complain: So thou, that hast no unkind mate to grieve thee, With urging helpless patience wouldst relieve me; But if thou live to see like right bereft, This fool-begged patience in thee will be left.

  William Shakespeare

  Pain, Adversity, Grieving

  William Shakespeare, Alfred Harbage (1977). “The complete works”

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• When a wise man gives thee better counsel, give me mine again.

  William Shakespeare

  Wise, Men, Giving

  William Shakespeare (1790). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: Timon of Athens. Troilus and Cressida. Cymbeline. King Lear. Vol. 8”, p.562

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• Affliction may one day smile again; and till then, sit thee down, sorrow!.

  William Shakespeare

  Sorrow, One Day, Affliction

  William Shakespeare, Isaac Reed (1813). “The Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.111

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• O fortune, fortune! all men call thee fickle.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Fickle, Juliet

  1595 Juliet. Romeo andJuliet, act 3, sc.5, l.60.

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• Open thy gate of mercy, gracious God, My soul flies through these wounds to seek out thee.

  William Shakespeare

  Mercy Of God, Soul, Gracious

  William Shakespeare (2013). “First Tetralogy In Plain and Simple English: Includes Henry VI Parts 1 - 3 & Richard III”, p.501, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Treason and murder ever kept together, As two yoke-devils sworn to either's purpose, Working so grossly in a natural cause That admiration did not whoop at them; But thou, 'gainst all proportion, didst bring in Wonder to wait on treason and on murder; And whatsoever cunning fiend it was That wrought upon thee so preposterously Hath got the voice in hell for excellence.

  William Shakespeare

  Two, Voice, Waiting

  William Shakespeare (1995). “King Henry V: Third Series”, p.174, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• In winter's tedious nights sit by the fire With good old folks, and let them tell thee tales Of woeful ages, long ago betid

  William Shakespeare

  Winter, Night, Fire

  'Richard II' (1595) act 5, sc. 1, l. 40

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• Where art thou, Muse, that thou forget'st so long / To speak of that which gives thee all thy might?

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Long, Giving

  William Shakespeare (2014). “Arden Shakespeare Complete Works”, p.34, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Yet then from all my grief, O Lord, Thy mercy set me free, Whilst in the confidence of pray'r My soul took hold on thee.

  Joseph Addison

  Prayer, Grief, Soul

  Joseph Addison (1749). “The Spectator”, p.69

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• Loveliest of women! heaven is in thy soul,
  Beauty and virtue shine forever round thee,
  Bright'ning each other! thou art all divine!

  Joseph Addison

  Art, Women, Soul Beauty

  "Cato, A Tragedy". Play by Joseph Addison, 1713.

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• Fra Lippo, we have learned from thee A lesson of humanity: To every mother's heart forlorn, In every house the Christ is born.

  Richard Watson Gilder

  Mother, Heart, House

  Richard Watson Gilder (1903). “A Christmas Wreath”

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