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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.

Ben Jonson

Tis no sin love’s fruits to steal; But the sweet thefts to reveal; To be taken, to be seen, These have crimes accounted been.
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Fruit Sweet Taken
True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
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Friendship Happiness Positive
He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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Art Fool Inspirational
It holds for good polity ever, to have that outwardly in vilest estimation, which inwardly is most dear to us.
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Dear Estimation Hypocrisy
Where dost thou careless lie, Buried in ease and sloth? Knowledge that sleeps, doth die; And this security, It is the common moth, That eats on wits and arts, and oft destroys them both.
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Art Common Lying Security Sleep
The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
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Orators Oratory Poet
It is less dishonor to hear imperfectly than to speak imperfectly. The ears are excused; the understanding is not.
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Ears Speak Understanding
He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.
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Glory Servant Virtue
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
All concord’s born of contraries.
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Born Contradiction Contrary
Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
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Disease Talking
The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
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Dignity Life Losing
Nothing is more short-lived than pride.
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Live Pride Short
It strikes! one, two, Three, four, five, six. Enough, enough, dear watch, Thy pulse hath beat enough. Now sleep and rest; Would thou could’st make the time to do so too; I’ll wind thee up no more.
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Enough Pulse Sleep Time Wind
The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.
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Men Smoking
You learn nothing about someone by the way they win the fight, you learn everything about the way they lose and keep coming back.
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Art Fighting Winning

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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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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