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

Ben Jonson

Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
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Disease Talking
Books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction.
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Book Faithful May
Ods me I marle what pleasure or felicity they have in taking their roguish tobacco. It is good for nothing but to choke a man, and fill him full of smoke and embers.
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Cigarette Smoke Men Smoking
Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed That sets his doors wide open to a thief, And shows the felon where his treasure lies?
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Doors Judgment Lying Treasure
All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
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Discourse Harsh Speech
Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
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Mind Punishment Vices
Many punishments sometimes, and in some cases, as much discredit a prince as many funerals a physician.
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Funeral Physicians Punishment
He threatens many that hath injured one.
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Crime Injured Threaten
A good man will avoid the spot of any sin. The very aspersion is grievous, which makes him choose his way in his life, as he would in his journey.
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Aspersion Choose Good Journey Men
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
Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!
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May Poetry War
In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
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June Life Perfect Summer
There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
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Fear Hell No Prisoner
Tis no sin love’s fruits to steal; But the sweet thefts to reveal; To be taken, to be seen, These have crimes accounted been.
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Fruit Sweet Taken
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
Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.
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Guilt Guilty Shame
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
True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
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Friendship Happiness Positive
No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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Glasses Men Speech
They, who know no evil, will suspect none.
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Evil Knows Suspect
Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.
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Heart Hypocrisy Spread
A good life is a main argument.
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Argument Good Inspirational Life
God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man’s dearer than to himself.
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Men Strange Wrecks
Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
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Passion Spiritual Understanding
Sweet Swan of Avon! What a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear.
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Sight Swans Sweet
I have been at my book; and am now past the craggy paths of study, and come to the flowery plains of honour and reputation
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Education Inspirational Past
Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
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Clothes Countenance Wit

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

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