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Minds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause: ‘Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause.

Ben Jonson

Ready writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing.
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Good Ready Writing
How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
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Fortune Practise Sports
Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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Force Free Nature Servile
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
That I might live alone once with my gold! O, ’tis a sweet companion! kind and true: A man may trust it when his father cheats him, Brother, or friend, or wife. O wondrous pelf! That which makes all men false, is true itself.
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Alone Brother Companions Money Sweet
In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
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June Life Perfect Summer
Blueness doth express trueness.
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Color Trueness
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
Calumnies are answered best with silence.
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Advice Silence
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
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
Hang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.
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Care Cat Sorrow
One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
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Character Trouble Women
The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.
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Infinite Men Soul
Follow a shadow, it still flies you, Seem to fly, it will pursue: So court a mistress, she denies you; Let her alone, she will court you. Say are not women truly, then, Styled but the shadows of us men?
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Men Mistress Shadow
How ready is heaven to those that pray!
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Heaven Prayer Praying

Minds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause: ‘Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause.

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