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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

It holds for good polity ever, to have that outwardly in vilest estimation, which inwardly is most dear to us.
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Dear Estimation Hypocrisy
Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
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Imperfect Light Opinion Things
Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.
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Affliction Person Prayer Wicked
Aristotle was the first accurate critic and truest judge nay, the greatest philosopher the world ever had; for he noted the vices of all knowledges, in all creatures, and out of many men’s perfections in a science he formed still one Art.
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Art Judging 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 poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
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Orators Oratory Poet
The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
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Men Money
I’ll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news.
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False Giving News True
I have discovered that a famed familiarity in great ones is a note of certain usurpation on the less; for great and popular men feign themselves to be servants to others to make those slaves to them.
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Men Popularity Slave
Fear to do base, unworthy things is valor; if they be one to us, to suffer them is valor too.
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Courage Suffering Valor
Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
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Faces Home House
The world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
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Conceited Fools Rome Two
Prevent your day at morning.
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Day Morning Prevent
For whose sake, henceforth, all his vows be such, As what he loves may never like too much.
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Love May Sake
How near to good is what is fair!
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Fairs Good Goodness Near
Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
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Ambition Needs Slave

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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