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Calumnies are answered best with silence.

Ben Jonson

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
God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man’s dearer than to himself.
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Men Strange Wrecks
Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
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Ambition Inspiration Looks
For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries: to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of his own style.
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Exercise Men Writing
For he that once is good, is ever great.
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Good Greatness Once
Blueness doth express trueness.
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Color Trueness
Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!
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Age Delight Soul Wonder
Man and wife make one fool.
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Marriage Men Wife
It strikes! one, two, Three, four, five, six. Enough, enough, dear watch, Thy pulse hath beat enough. Now sleep and rest; Would thou could’st make the time to do so too; I’ll wind thee up no more.
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Enough Pulse Sleep Time Wind
A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
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Good Loss Men Rise
It is a note Of upstart greatness to observe and watch For these poor trifles, which the noble mind Neglects and scorns.
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Greatness Mind Scorn Watches
The burnt child dreads the fire.
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Children Dread Fire
Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
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Imperfect Light Opinion Things
I am beholden to calumny, that she hath so endeavored to belie me.-It shall make me set a surer guard on myself, and keep a better watch upon my actions.
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Action Calumny Watches
Fortune, that favors fools.
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Favors Fool Fortune
What excellent fools religion makes of men.
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Men Religion Religious

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