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… the best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle.

Ben Jonson

It holds for good polity ever, to have that outwardly in vilest estimation, which inwardly is most dear to us.
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Dear Estimation Hypocrisy
Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.
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Disease Mean Music
One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
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Character Trouble Women
Man and wife make one fool.
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Marriage Men Wife
In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
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Absence Hope Love Miss Sweet
The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
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Acknowledge Ass Devil
I am beholden to calumny, that she hath so endeavored to belie me.-It shall make me set a surer guard on myself, and keep a better watch upon my actions.
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Action Calumny Watches
How near to good is what is fair!
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Fairs Good Goodness Near
A good life is a main argument.
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Argument Good Inspirational Life
Now we are all fallen, youth from their fear, And age from that which bred it, good example.
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Age Example Fallen Good Youth
Rich apparel has strange virtues; it makes him that hath it without means esteemed for an excellent wit; he that enjoys it with means puts the world in remembrance of his means.
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Mean Remembrance Rich World
Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
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Book Looks Reader
It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
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Giving Men Virtue
Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
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Leadership May Men
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
For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries: to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of his own style.
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Exercise Men Writing

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