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For he that once is good, is ever great.

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The world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
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Conceited Fools Rome Two
Honor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.
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Hate Honor Men Time
Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.
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Past Winning Years
Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.
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Looks Meaning Weigh
In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
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Absence Hope Love Miss Sweet
Nor use too swelling, or ill-sounded words . . . .
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Sounded Swelling Use Words
When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity.
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Enemy Grief Men
Calumnies are answered best with silence.
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Advice Silence
Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
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Ambition Needs Slave
I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
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Glory Greed Wealth
A good man will avoid the spot of any sin. The very aspersion is grievous, which makes him choose his way in his life, as he would in his journey.
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Aspersion Choose Good Journey Men
I have no urns, no dusty monuments; No broken images of ancestors, Wanting an ear, or nose; no forged tales Of long descents, to boast false honors from.
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Broken Honor Long
Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
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Book Looks Reader
No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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Glasses Men Speech
Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
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Lines Sweat Writing
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

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