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The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.

Ben Jonson

Your highest female grace is silence.
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Female Grace Silence
Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star.
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Fall Love Stars
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
Sweet Swan of Avon! What a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear.
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Sight Swans Sweet
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
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
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
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
Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.
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Beer Drink Wells
Calumnies are answered best with silence.
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Advice Silence
I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.
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Affected Eloquence Foolish
Poets are far rarer birds than kings.
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Bird Kings Poet
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
Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
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Mind Punishment Vices
In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
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June Life Perfect Summer
Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
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Frail Memories Mind

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