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For they have the authority of years, and out of their intermission do win to themselves a kind of grace-like newness. But the eldest of the present, and newest of the past Language, is the best.

Ben Jonson

Your highest female grace is silence.
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Female Grace Silence
Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.
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Guilt Guilty Shame
Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
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Clothes Countenance Wit
It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
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Giving Men Virtue
To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
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Communication Motivational Wise
Our whole life is like a play.
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Life Play Whole
There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
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Creeds Doctrine Good Waiting
There is no bounty to be showed to such As have real goodness: Bounty is A spice of virtue; and what virtuous act Can take effect on them that have no power Of equal habitude to apprehend it?
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Real Spices Virtue
Calumnies are answered best with silence.
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Advice Silence
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
Honor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.
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Hate Honor Men Time
Indeed there’s a woundy luck in names.
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Indeed Luck Names Woundy
It strikes! one, two, Three, four, five, six. Enough, enough, dear watch, Thy pulse hath beat enough. Now sleep and rest; Would thou could’st make the time to do so too; I’ll wind thee up no more.
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Enough Pulse Sleep Time Wind
I have no urns, no dusty monuments; No broken images of ancestors, Wanting an ear, or nose; no forged tales Of long descents, to boast false honors from.
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Broken Honor Long
Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.
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Disease Mean Music
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

For they have the authority of years, and out of their intermission do win to themselves a kind of grace-like newness. But the eldest of the present, and newest of the past Language, is the best.

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For they have the authority of years, and out of their intermission do win to themselves a kind of grace-like newness. But the eldest of the present, and newest of the past Language, is the best.

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