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A good king is a public servant.

Ben Jonson

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
True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
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Joy Speak Tongue
Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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Fortune Men
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
Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
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Angry Concern Slander
True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
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Friendship Happiness Positive
Wine it is the milk of Venus, And the poet’s horse accounted: Ply it and you all are mounted.
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Horse Plies Wine
If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
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Illness Neurosis Sick
Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star.
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Fall Love Stars
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
And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow’d them with her odorous foot.
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Feet Flower Roots
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
Success hath made me wanton.
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Hath Made Success Wanton
A lily of a day Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be.
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Die Fall Flower Night Proportion
Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
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Art Enemy Ignorance
Silence in woman is like speech in man.
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Men Silence Speech

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