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Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.

Ben Jonson

Money never made any man rich, but his mind. He that can order himself to the law of nature, is not only without the sense, but the fear of poverty.
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Law Men Mind Order Sense
Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
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Imperfect Light Opinion Things
Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
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Death Good Man Men
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
The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
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Men Money
Calumnies are answered best with silence.
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Advice Silence
And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow’d them with her odorous foot.
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Feet Flower Roots
Silence in woman is like speech in man.
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Men Silence Speech
A good poet’s made as well as born.
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Born Made Poet
Nor use too swelling, or ill-sounded words . . . .
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Sounded Swelling Use Words
How ready is heaven to those that pray!
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Heaven Prayer Praying
The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
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Dignity Life Losing
All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
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Little Wise World
I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never plotted out a line. My answer hath been, would he had blotted a thousand.
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Answer Lines Mention Penend Player Writing
Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast, Still to be powder’d, all perfum’d. Lady, it is to be presumed, Though art’s hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound.
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Art Causes Drest Near Sweet
Let argument bear no unmusical sound.
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Argument Bears Sound

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