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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

Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.
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Guilt Guilty Shame
Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
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Leadership May Men
Truth is man’s proper good, and the only immortal thing was given to our mortality to use.
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Men Truth Use
The way to rise is to obey and please.
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Please Success Way
The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
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Dignity Life Losing
To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
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Change Men Want Welcome
Man and wife make one fool.
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Marriage Men Wife
It is less dishonor to hear imperfectly than to speak imperfectly. The ears are excused; the understanding is not.
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Ears Speak Understanding
It is the highest of earthly honors to be descended from the great and good. They alone cry out against a noble ancestry who have none of their own.
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Ancestry Honor Noble
Peace is never more than one thought away.
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Away Harmony More Peace
Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.
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Envy Honor Two
Confound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
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Funny Humor Ideas
The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
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Evil Hate Men Oppress
Calumnies are answered best with silence.
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Advice Silence
Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.
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Art Men Monsters
A good dog deserves a good bone.
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Bones Canine Dog

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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