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The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.

Ben Jonson

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
Tis no sin love’s fruits to steal; But the sweet thefts to reveal; To be taken, to be seen, These have crimes accounted been.
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Fruit Sweet Taken
O! How vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do.
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Fear Men Passion
Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
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Frail Memories Mind
A good dog deserves a good bone.
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Bones Canine Dog
For he that once is good, is ever great.
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Good Greatness Once
Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.
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Praise Strikes Strokes
In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
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June Life Perfect Summer
Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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Fortune Men
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
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
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
Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed That sets his doors wide open to a thief, And shows the felon where his treasure lies?
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Doors Judgment Lying Treasure
All concord’s born of contraries.
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Born Contradiction Contrary
Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
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Beast Flattery Tyrant
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

The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.

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