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Poets are far rarer birds than kings.

Ben Jonson

Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.
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Good Time Illustrate Men Stars
Calumnies are answered best with silence.
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Advice Silence
Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
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Hate Hatred Ignorant
The burnt child dreads the fire.
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Children Dread Fire
Your highest female grace is silence.
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Female Grace Silence
O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
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Forget Sun Time
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
All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
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Little Wise World
Nor use too swelling, or ill-sounded words . . . .
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Sounded Swelling Use Words
Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.
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Good Man Heaven Men
Very few men are wise by their own council, or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself, had a fool for a master.
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Men Teaching Wise
Silence in woman is like speech in man.
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Men Silence Speech
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
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
Man and wife make one fool.
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Marriage Men Wife
I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
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Glory Greed Wealth

Poets are far rarer birds than kings.

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