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True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.

Ben Jonson

A valiant man Ought not to undergo, or tempt a danger, But worthily, and by selected ways, He undertakes with reason, not by chance. His valor is the salt t’ his other virtues, They’re all unseason’d without it.
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Men Salt Way
It strikes! one, two, Three, four, five, six. Enough, enough, dear watch, Thy pulse hath beat enough. Now sleep and rest; Would thou could’st make the time to do so too; I’ll wind thee up no more.
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Enough Pulse Sleep Time Wind
Chance will not do the work. Chance sends the breeze; But if the pilot slumber at the helm, The very wind that wafts us tow’rds the port May dash us on the shoals. The steersman’s part Is vigilance, or blow it rough or smooth.
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Blow Slumber Wind
A good king is a public servant.
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Good King Kings Servant
He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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Art Fool Inspirational
It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
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Giving Men Virtue
The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.
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Birthday Praying Return
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
There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
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Creeds Doctrine Good Waiting
Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed That sets his doors wide open to a thief, And shows the felon where his treasure lies?
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Doors Judgment Lying Treasure
Where dost thou careless lie, Buried in ease and sloth? Knowledge that sleeps, doth die; And this security, It is the common moth, That eats on wits and arts, and oft destroys them both.
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Art Common Lying Security Sleep
I’ll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news.
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False Giving News True
The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
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Evil Hate Men Oppress
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
In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
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Absence Hope Love Miss Sweet
The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
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Men Money

True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.

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