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Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.

Ben Jonson

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
Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.
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Folly Impudence Rudeness
A good dog deserves a good bone.
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Bones Canine Dog
A valiant man Ought not to undergo, or tempt a danger, But worthily, and by selected ways, He undertakes with reason, not by chance. His valor is the salt t’ his other virtues, They’re all unseason’d without it.
BEN JONSON

Men Salt Way
Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
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Mind Punishment Vices
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
Tell troth and shame the devil.
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Devil Shame Truth
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
Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.
BEN JONSON

Envy Honor Two
Freedom doth with degree dispense.
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Degree Dispense Freedom
I do honor the very flea of his dog.
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Dog Hero Honor
Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.
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Heart Hypocrisy Spread
One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
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Character Trouble Women
Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.
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Guilt Guilty Shame
True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
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Friendship Happiness Positive
Your highest female grace is silence.
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Female Grace Silence

Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.

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