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O! How vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do.

Ben Jonson

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
No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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Glasses Men Speech
Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.
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Affliction Person Prayer Wicked
Poets are far rarer birds than kings.
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Bird Kings Poet
Ready writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing.
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Good Ready Writing
I have been at my book; and am now past the craggy paths of study, and come to the flowery plains of honour and reputation
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Education Inspirational Past
Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
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Leadership May Men
Aristotle was the first accurate critic and truest judge nay, the greatest philosopher the world ever had; for he noted the vices of all knowledges, in all creatures, and out of many men’s perfections in a science he formed still one Art.
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Art Judging Men
Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
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Book Looks Reader
Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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Fortune Men
All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
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Little Wise World
O! How vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do.
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Fear Men Passion
Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
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Frail Memories Mind
If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
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Illness Neurosis Sick
He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
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Honesty Vulgar
There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
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Creeds Doctrine Good Waiting

O! How vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do.

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