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As it is a great point of art, when our matter requires it, to enlarge and veer out all sail, so to take it in and contract it is of no less praise when the argument doth ask it.

Ben Jonson

A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
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Eye Government Letter
Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
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Leadership May Men
No man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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Easily May Men Taught Wise
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
Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.
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Beer Drink Wells
The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
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Dignity Life Losing
A good poet’s made as well as born.
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Born Made Poet
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
A good dog deserves a good bone.
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Bones Canine Dog
Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
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Frail Memories Mind
Honor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.
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Hate Honor Men Time
He threatens many that hath injured one.
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Crime Injured Threaten
Greatness of name, in the father, ofttimes helps not forth, but overwhelms the son: They stand too near one another. The shadow kills the growth.
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Father Greatness Son
I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
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Father Men Parent
Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.
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Art Men Monsters
Let argument bear no unmusical sound.
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Argument Bears Sound

As it is a great point of art, when our matter requires it, to enlarge and veer out all sail, so to take it in and contract it is of no less praise when the argument doth ask it.

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As it is a great point of art, when our matter requires it, to enlarge and veer out all sail, so to take it in and contract it is of no less praise when the argument doth ask it.

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