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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?

Ben Jonson

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
The voice so sweet, the words so fair, As some soft chime had stroked the air; And though the sound had parted thence, Still left an echo in the sense.
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Air Echoes Parted Sweet Thence
If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
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Illness Neurosis Sick
Forbear, you things That stand upon the pinnacles of state, To boast your slippery height! when you do fall, You dash yourselves in pieces, ne’er to rise: And he that lends you pity, is not wise.
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Boast Fall Pieces Wise
He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
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Honesty Vulgar
The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
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Evil Hate Men Oppress
Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
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Disease Talking
Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
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Imperfect Light Opinion Things
Honor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.
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Hate Honor Men Time
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
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
Princes that would their people should do well Must at themselves begin, as at the head; For men, by their example, pattern out Their limitations, and regard of laws: A virtuous court a world to virtue draws.
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Example Law Men Patteren People
Language most shows a man; speak that I may see thee; it springs out of the most retired and inmost parts of us, and is the image of the parent of it, the mind. No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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Glasses Men Spring
Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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Fortune Men
O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
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Forget Sun Time
If men will impartially, and not asquint, look toward the offices and function of a poet, they will easily conclude to themselves the impossibility of any man’s being a good poet without first being a good man.
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Good Man Men Office

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