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It is less dishonor to hear imperfectly than to speak imperfectly. The ears are excused; the understanding is not.

Ben Jonson

The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
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Orators Oratory Poet
Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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Fortune Men
Men that talk of their own benefits are not believed to talk of them because they have done them, but to have done them because they might talk of them.
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Benefits Done Men
True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
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Joy Speak Tongue
I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
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Father Men Parent
Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
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Death Good Man Men
Greatness of name, in the father, ofttimes helps not forth, but overwhelms the son: They stand too near one another. The shadow kills the growth.
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Father Greatness Son
A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pestilence, it doth infect the houses of the brain till not a thought, or motion, in the mind, be free from the black poison of suspect.
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Black Brain House
Guilt’s a terrible thing.
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Guilt Terrible Things
He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.
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Glory Servant Virtue
Aristotle was the first accurate critic and truest judge nay, the greatest philosopher the world ever had; for he noted the vices of all knowledges, in all creatures, and out of many men’s perfections in a science he formed still one Art.
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Art Judging Men
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
Wine it is the milk of Venus, And the poet’s horse accounted: Ply it and you all are mounted.
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Horse Plies Wine
It holds for good polity ever, to have that outwardly in vilest estimation, which inwardly is most dear to us.
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Dear Estimation Hypocrisy
For whose sake, henceforth, all his vows be such, As what he loves may never like too much.
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Love May Sake
Man and wife make one fool.
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Marriage Men Wife

It is less dishonor to hear imperfectly than to speak imperfectly. The ears are excused; the understanding is not.

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