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

Ben Jonson

Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.
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Looks Meaning Weigh
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
The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.
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Birthday Praying Return
A good life is a main argument.
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Argument Good Inspirational Life
Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.
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Folly Impudence Rudeness
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
Sweet Swan of Avon! What a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear.
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Sight Swans Sweet
Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
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Beast Flattery Tyrant
Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.
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Beer Drink Wells
A good dog deserves a good bone.
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Bones Canine Dog
A good king is a public servant.
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Good King Kings Servant
Books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction.
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Book Faithful May
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
I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.
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Compassion Justice Weakness
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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Aspersion Choose Good Journey Men
Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
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Ambition Needs Slave
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
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
God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man’s dearer than to himself.
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Men Strange Wrecks
How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
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Fortune Practise Sports
Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.
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Disease Mean Music
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
Minds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause: ‘Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause.
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Applause Crowns Mind Virtue
Your highest female grace is silence.
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Female Grace Silence
Princes that would their people should do well Must at themselves begin, as at the head; For men, by their example, pattern out Their limitations, and regard of laws: A virtuous court a world to virtue draws.
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Example Law Men Patteren People
Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I’ll not look for wine.
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Food Romantic Wine
The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
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Dignity Life Losing

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