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It is less dishonor to hear imperfectly than to speak imperfectly. The ears are excused; the understanding is not.

Ben Jonson

Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
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Frail Memories Mind
No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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Glasses Men Speech
How near to good is what is fair!
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Fairs Good Goodness Near
Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
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Art Enemy Ignorance
I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
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Glory Greed Wealth
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
True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
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Joy Speak Tongue
Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
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Ambition Needs Slave
Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
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Beast Flattery Tyrant
Let argument bear no unmusical sound.
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Argument Bears Sound
The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
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Acknowledge Ass Devil
Man and wife make one fool.
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Marriage Men Wife
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
Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star.
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Fall Love Stars
A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.
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Gratitude Men Needs
It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.
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Art Giving Lying

It is less dishonor to hear imperfectly than to speak imperfectly. The ears are excused; the understanding is not.

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