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

Ben Jonson

Tell troth and shame the devil.
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Devil Shame Truth
Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
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Passion Spiritual Understanding
Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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Fortune Men
Guilt’s a terrible thing.
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Guilt Terrible Things
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
No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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Glasses Men Speech
I now think, Love is rather deaf, than blind, For else it could not be, That she, Whom I adore so much, should so slight me, And cast my love behind.
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Blind Love Slight Thinking
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
Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.
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Beer Drink Wells
Nor use too swelling, or ill-sounded words . . . .
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Sounded Swelling Use Words
Language most shows a man; speak that I may see thee; it springs out of the most retired and inmost parts of us, and is the image of the parent of it, the mind. No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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Glasses Men Spring
[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.
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Conceited English Plain Play
Calumnies are answered best with silence.
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Advice Silence
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
Blueness doth express trueness.
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Color Trueness
Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
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Beast Flattery Tyrant

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