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Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.

Ben Jonson

Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
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Relax Reputation Ruins
He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.
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Glory Servant Virtue
The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
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Orators Oratory Poet
There is no bounty to be showed to such As have real goodness: Bounty is A spice of virtue; and what virtuous act Can take effect on them that have no power Of equal habitude to apprehend it?
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Real Spices Virtue
Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
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Leadership May Men
Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
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Frail Memories Mind
Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
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Book Looks Reader
Money never made any man rich, but his mind. He that can order himself to the law of nature, is not only without the sense, but the fear of poverty.
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Law Men Mind Order Sense
Prevent your day at morning.
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Day Morning Prevent
Sweet Swan of Avon! What a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear.
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Sight Swans Sweet
Whosoever loves not picture is injurious to truth, and all the wisdom of poetry. Picture is the invention of heaven, the most ancient and most akin to nature. It is itself a silent work, and always one and the same habit.
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Ancient Heaven Silent
Queen and huntress, chaste and fair Now the sun is laid to sleep, Seated in thy silver chair, State in wonted manner keep: Hesperus entreats thy light Goddess, excellently bright.
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Chair Light Queens Seated Sleep
It is as great a spite to be praised in the wrong place, and by a wrong person, as can be done to a noble nature.
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Done Noble Person Wrong
Confound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
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Funny Humor Ideas
Fortune, that favors fools.
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Favors Fool Fortune
Peace is never more than one thought away.
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Away Harmony More Peace

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