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Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.

Ben Jonson

Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
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Relax Reputation Ruins
Men that talk of their own benefits are not believed to talk of them because they have done them, but to have done them because they might talk of them.
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Benefits Done Men
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
All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
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Discourse Harsh Speech
Your highest female grace is silence.
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Female Grace Silence
No simple word That shall be uttered at our mirthful board, Shall make us sad next morning; or affright The liberty that we’ll enjoy to-night.
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Morning Regret Simple
Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.
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Praise Strikes Strokes
The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.
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Men Smoking
The two chief things that give a man reputation in counsel, are the opinion of his honesty, and the opinion of his wisdom; the authority of those two will persuade.
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Honesty Men Persuade Simple Two Wisdom
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
Honor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.
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Hate Honor Men Time
A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
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Good Loss Men Rise
How ready is heaven to those that pray!
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Heaven Prayer Praying
True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
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Joy Speak Tongue
Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
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Anarchy Drinking Thinking
A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pestilence, it doth infect the houses of the brain till not a thought, or motion, in the mind, be free from the black poison of suspect.
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Black Brain House

Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.

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