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Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.

Ben Jonson

Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
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Faces Home House
To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
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Change Men Want Welcome
Our whole life is like a play.
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Life Play Whole
And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow’d them with her odorous foot.
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Feet Flower Roots
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
I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never plotted out a line. My answer hath been, would he had blotted a thousand.
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Answer Lines Mention Penend Player Writing
The way to rise is to obey and please.
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Please Success Way
They, who know no evil, will suspect none.
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Evil Knows Suspect
Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.
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Guilt Guilty Shame
Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
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Leadership May Men
Tis no sin love’s fruits to steal; But the sweet thefts to reveal; To be taken, to be seen, These have crimes accounted been.
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Fruit Sweet Taken
The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.
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Birthday Praying Return
Well, I will scourge those apes, And to these courteous eyes oppose a mirror, As large as is the stage whereon we act; Where they shall see the time’s deformity Anatomised in every nerve, and sinew, With constant courage, and contempt of fear.
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Act Apes Courage Eye Mirror Time
For they have the authority of years, and out of their intermission do win to themselves a kind of grace-like newness. But the eldest of the present, and newest of the past Language, is the best.
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Intermission Newest Present Themselves
Let argument bear no unmusical sound.
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Argument Bears Sound
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

Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.

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