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Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.

Ben Jonson

It is a note Of upstart greatness to observe and watch For these poor trifles, which the noble mind Neglects and scorns.
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Greatness Mind Scorn Watches
True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
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Joy Speak Tongue
Nothing is more short-lived than pride.
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Live Pride Short
Confound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
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Funny Humor Ideas
In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
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Absence Hope Love Miss Sweet
Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.
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Guilt Guilty Shame
All concord’s born of contraries.
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Born Contradiction Contrary
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
Ambition, like a torrent, ne’er looks back; And is a swelling, and the last affection A high mind can put off; being both a rebel Unto the soul and reason, and enforceth All laws, all conscience, treads upon religion, and offereth violence to nature’s self.
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Ambition Conscience Law Rebel Self Soul
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
Fear to do base, unworthy things is valor; if they be one to us, to suffer them is valor too.
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Courage Suffering Valor
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
For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries: to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of his own style.
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Exercise Men Writing
Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
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Dream Hate Hatred
They, who know no evil, will suspect none.
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Evil Knows Suspect
Nor use too swelling, or ill-sounded words . . . .
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Sounded Swelling Use Words

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