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I am beholden to calumny, that she hath so endeavored to belie me.-It shall make me set a surer guard on myself, and keep a better watch upon my actions.

Ben Jonson

Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
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Leadership May Men
Hell itself must yield to industry.
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Hell Industry Yield
I know no disease of the soul but ignorance, a pernicious evil, the darkener of man’s life, the disturber of his reason, and common confounder of truth.
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Ignorance Men Science
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
I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.
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Compassion Justice Weakness
My thoughts and I were of another world.
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Another World Thoughts
Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
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Beast Flattery Tyrant
All concord’s born of contraries.
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Born Contradiction Contrary
Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.
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Looks Meaning Weigh
Honor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.
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Hate Honor Men Time
The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
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Dignity Life Losing
How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
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Fortune Practise Sports
Silence in woman is like speech in man.
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Men Silence Speech
Tell troth and shame the devil.
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Devil Shame Truth
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
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

I am beholden to calumny, that she hath so endeavored to belie me.-It shall make me set a surer guard on myself, and keep a better watch upon my actions.

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