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Your highest female grace is silence.

Ben Jonson

Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
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Anxiety Care Possession
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
It is as great a spite to be praised in the wrong place, and by a wrong person, as can be done to a noble nature.
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Done Noble Person Wrong
Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
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Beast Fats Mischief
The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
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Evil Hate Men Oppress
Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.
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Affliction Person Prayer Wicked
Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
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Ambition Inspiration Looks
Freedom doth with degree dispense.
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Degree Dispense Freedom
Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
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Passion Spiritual Understanding
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
Very few men are wise by their own council, or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself, had a fool for a master.
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Men Teaching Wise
The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
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Acknowledge Ass Devil
They, who know no evil, will suspect none.
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Evil Knows Suspect
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
Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.
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Looks Meaning Weigh
How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
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Fortune Practise Sports

Your highest female grace is silence.

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