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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.

Ben Jonson

Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
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Frail Memories Mind
Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
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Faces Home House
He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.
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Glory Servant Virtue
Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!
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May Poetry War
A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.
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Gratitude Men Needs
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
Nor use too swelling, or ill-sounded words . . . .
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Sounded Swelling Use Words
Our whole life is like a play.
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Life Play Whole
Tell troth and shame the devil.
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Devil Shame Truth
Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.
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Cutting Men Whispering
A good dog deserves a good bone.
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Bones Canine Dog
True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
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Friendship Happiness Positive
If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.
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Art Being Poverty True
Hell itself must yield to industry.
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Hell Industry Yield
To struggle when hope is banished! To live when life’s salt is gone! To dwell in a dream that’s vanished- To endure, and go calmly on!
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Dream Life Struggle Vanish
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

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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