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When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity.

Ben Jonson

There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
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Creeds Doctrine Good Waiting
My thoughts and I were of another world.
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Another World Thoughts
To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
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Communication Motivational Wise
A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
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Eye Government Letter
The voice so sweet, the words so fair, As some soft chime had stroked the air; And though the sound had parted thence, Still left an echo in the sense.
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Air Echoes Parted Sweet Thence
Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
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Angry Concern Slander
Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.
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Folly Impudence Rudeness
Where dost thou careless lie, Buried in ease and sloth? Knowledge that sleeps, doth die; And this security, It is the common moth, That eats on wits and arts, and oft destroys them both.
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Art Common Lying Security Sleep
He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
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Honesty Vulgar
I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.
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Compassion Justice Weakness
How near to good is what is fair!
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Fairs Good Goodness Near
The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
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Dignity Life Losing
Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!
BEN JONSON

May Poetry War
Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast, Still to be powder’d, all perfum’d. Lady, it is to be presumed, Though art’s hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound.
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Art Causes Drest Near Sweet
He was not of an age, but for all time!
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Age Time
All concord’s born of contraries.
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Born Contradiction Contrary

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