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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

True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
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Friendship Happiness Positive
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
The burnt child dreads the fire.
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Children Dread Fire
Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.
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Folly Impudence Rudeness
Your highest female grace is silence.
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Female Grace Silence
Calumnies are answered best with silence.
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Advice Silence
Aristotle was the first accurate critic and truest judge nay, the greatest philosopher the world ever had; for he noted the vices of all knowledges, in all creatures, and out of many men’s perfections in a science he formed still one Art.
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Art Judging Men
I feel my griefs too, and there scarce is ground Upon my flesh t’inflict another wound. Yet dare I not complain, or wish for death With holy Paul; lest it be thought the breath Of discontent; or that these prayers be For weariness of life, not love of thee.
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Another Grief Prayer Weariness Wish Wound
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
Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
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Ambition Inspiration Looks
Our whole life is like a play.
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Life Play Whole
Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star.
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Fall Love Stars
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
Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!
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Age Delight Soul Wonder
For whose sake, henceforth, all his vows be such, As what he loves may never like too much.
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Love May Sake

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

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

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