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Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.

Ben Jonson

Many might go to heaven with half the labour they go to hell, if they would venture their industry the right way.
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Half Heaven Venture
How near to good is what is fair!
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Fairs Good Goodness Near
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
Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
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Frail Memories Mind
Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
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Hate Hatred Ignorant
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
In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
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June Life Perfect Summer
In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
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Absence Hope Love Miss Sweet
He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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Art Fool Inspirational
Your highest female grace is silence.
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Female Grace Silence
Calumnies are answered best with silence.
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Advice Silence
He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.
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Glory Servant Virtue
Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace Robes loosely flowing, hair as free Such sweet neglect more taketh me Than all the adulteries of art: They strike mine eyes, but not my heart.
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Art Eye Neglect Simplicity Sweet
He threatens many that hath injured one.
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Crime Injured Threaten
Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.
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Envy Honor Two
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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