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

Ben Jonson

To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
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Communication Motivational Wise
True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
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Fine Melancholy Perfect Wit
Tell troth and shame the devil.
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Devil Shame Truth
Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
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Ambition Needs Slave
My thoughts and I were of another world.
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Another World Thoughts
All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
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Discourse Harsh Speech
Follow a shadow, it still flies you, Seem to fly, it will pursue: So court a mistress, she denies you; Let her alone, she will court you. Say are not women truly, then, Styled but the shadows of us men?
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Men Mistress Shadow
If you succeed not, cast not away the quills yet, nor scratch the wainscot, beat not the poor desk, but bring all to the forge and file again; turn it new.
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Crafts Scratches Succeed
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
Your highest female grace is silence.
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Female Grace Silence
Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
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Boys Mean Money
Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.
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Good Time Illustrate Men Stars
One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
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Character Trouble Women
Our whole life is like a play.
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Life Play Whole
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
No man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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Easily May Men Taught Wise

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

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