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Calumnies are answered best with silence.

Ben Jonson

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
No simple word That shall be uttered at our mirthful board, Shall make us sad next morning; or affright The liberty that we’ll enjoy to-night.
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Morning Regret Simple
To struggle when hope is banished! To live when life’s salt is gone! To dwell in a dream that’s vanished- To endure, and go calmly on!
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Dream Life Struggle Vanish
Success hath made me wanton.
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Hath Made Success Wanton
Hell itself must yield to industry.
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Hell Industry Yield
Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
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Ambition Inspiration Looks
Now we are all fallen, youth from their fear, And age from that which bred it, good example.
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Age Example Fallen Good Youth
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
Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.
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Praise Strikes Strokes
Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.
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Guilt Guilty Shame
Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
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Book Looks Reader
Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
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Art Enemy Ignorance
Sweet Swan of Avon! What a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear.
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Sight Swans Sweet
Very few men are wise by their own council, or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself, had a fool for a master.
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Men Teaching Wise
Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.
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Affliction Person Prayer Wicked
My thoughts and I were of another world.
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Another World Thoughts

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