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It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.

Ben Jonson

If you succeed not, cast not away the quills yet, nor scratch the wainscot, beat not the poor desk, but bring all to the forge and file again; turn it new.
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Crafts Scratches Succeed
Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
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Anxiety Care Possession
A good life is a main argument.
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Argument Good Inspirational Life
True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
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Joy Speak Tongue
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
A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
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Good Loss Men Rise
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
How near to good is what is fair!
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Fairs Good Goodness Near
He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.
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Glory Servant Virtue
It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
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Giving Men Virtue
Nor shall our cups make any guilty men; But at our parting, we will be, as when We innocently met.
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Cup Drinking Men
I have been at my book; and am now past the craggy paths of study, and come to the flowery plains of honour and reputation
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Education Inspirational Past
Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.
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Past Winning Years
Greatness of name, in the father, ofttimes helps not forth, but overwhelms the son: They stand too near one another. The shadow kills the growth.
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Father Greatness Son
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
Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
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Hate Hatred Ignorant
The burnt child dreads the fire.
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Children Dread Fire
I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never plotted out a line. My answer hath been, would he had blotted a thousand.
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Answer Lines Mention Penend Player Writing
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
There is no bounty to be showed to such As have real goodness: Bounty is A spice of virtue; and what virtuous act Can take effect on them that have no power Of equal habitude to apprehend it?
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Real Spices Virtue
When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity.
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Enemy Grief Men
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
Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
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Angry Concern Slander
God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man’s dearer than to himself.
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Men Strange Wrecks
He that is respectless in his courses oft sells his reputation at cheap market.
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Courses Reputation Sells
Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
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Clothes Countenance Wit
Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
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Ambition Inspiration Looks

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