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

Ben Jonson

For they have the authority of years, and out of their intermission do win to themselves a kind of grace-like newness. But the eldest of the present, and newest of the past Language, is the best.
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Intermission Newest Present Themselves
Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.
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Looks Meaning Weigh
The burnt child dreads the fire.
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Children Dread Fire
O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
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Forget Sun Time
A good man will avoid the spot of any sin. The very aspersion is grievous, which makes him choose his way in his life, as he would in his journey.
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Aspersion Choose Good Journey Men
To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.
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Long Pleasure Treasure
True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
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Joy Speak Tongue
Queen and huntress, chaste and fair Now the sun is laid to sleep, Seated in thy silver chair, State in wonted manner keep: Hesperus entreats thy light Goddess, excellently bright.
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Chair Light Queens Seated Sleep
For whose sake, henceforth, all his vows be such, As what he loves may never like too much.
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Love May Sake
Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
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Anarchy Drinking Thinking
If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
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Illness Neurosis Sick
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
Tell troth and shame the devil.
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Devil Shame Truth
There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
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Creeds Doctrine Good Waiting
It is the highest of earthly honors to be descended from the great and good. They alone cry out against a noble ancestry who have none of their own.
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Ancestry Honor Noble
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

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