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Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.

Ben Jonson

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
The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.
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Birthday Praying Return
He was not of an age, but for all time!
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Age Time
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
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
I know no disease of the soul but ignorance, a pernicious evil, the darkener of man’s life, the disturber of his reason, and common confounder of truth.
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Ignorance Men Science
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
Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
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Passion Spiritual Understanding
Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!
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Age Delight Soul Wonder
For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries: to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of his own style.
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Exercise Men Writing
Tell troth and shame the devil.
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Devil Shame Truth
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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Art Ask Matter Praise Style
Wine it is the milk of Venus, And the poet’s horse accounted: Ply it and you all are mounted.
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Horse Plies Wine
True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
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Friendship Happiness Positive
Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
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Art Enemy Ignorance
Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
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Court Deny Mistress

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