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I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.

Ben Jonson

Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
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Faces Home House
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
Chance will not do the work. Chance sends the breeze; But if the pilot slumber at the helm, The very wind that wafts us tow’rds the port May dash us on the shoals. The steersman’s part Is vigilance, or blow it rough or smooth.
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Blow Slumber Wind
Man and wife make one fool.
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Marriage Men Wife
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
A valiant man Ought not to undergo, or tempt a danger, But worthily, and by selected ways, He undertakes with reason, not by chance. His valor is the salt t’ his other virtues, They’re all unseason’d without it.
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Men Salt Way
Hell itself must yield to industry.
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Hell Industry Yield
If men will impartially, and not asquint, look toward the offices and function of a poet, they will easily conclude to themselves the impossibility of any man’s being a good poet without first being a good man.
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Good Man Men Office
Honor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.
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Hate Honor Men Time
Truth is man’s proper good, and the only immortal thing was given to our mortality to use.
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Men Truth Use
Indeed there’s a woundy luck in names.
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Indeed Luck Names Woundy
A good poet’s made as well as born.
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Born Made Poet
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
Calumnies are answered best with silence.
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Advice Silence
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
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
Your highest female grace is silence.
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Female Grace Silence
Poor worms, they hiss at me, whilst I at home Can be contented to applaud myself, . . . with joy To see how plump my bags are and my barns.
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Home Joy
In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
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June Life Perfect Summer
Drink today, and drown all sorrow; You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow; Best, while you have it, use your breath; There is no drinking after death.
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Drinking Sorrow Use
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
To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
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Communication Motivational Wise
Money never made any man rich, but his mind. He that can order himself to the law of nature, is not only without the sense, but the fear of poverty.
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Law Men Mind Order Sense
A good life is a main argument.
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Argument Good Inspirational Life
Peace is never more than one thought away.
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Away Harmony More Peace
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
I have no urns, no dusty monuments; No broken images of ancestors, Wanting an ear, or nose; no forged tales Of long descents, to boast false honors from.
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Broken Honor Long

I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.

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