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True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.

Ben Jonson

True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
BEN JONSON

Joy Speak Tongue
How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
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Fortune Practise Sports
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
Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
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Faces Home House
They, who know no evil, will suspect none.
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Evil Knows Suspect
I now think, Love is rather deaf, than blind, For else it could not be, That she, Whom I adore so much, should so slight me, And cast my love behind.
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Blind Love Slight Thinking
Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
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Ambition Inspiration Looks
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
Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
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Beast Fats Mischief
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
Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.
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Heart Hypocrisy Spread
It is as great a spite to be praised in the wrong place, and by a wrong person, as can be done to a noble nature.
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Done Noble Person Wrong
I have been at my book; and am now past the craggy paths of study, and come to the flowery plains of honour and reputation
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Education Inspirational Past
He threatens many that hath injured one.
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Crime Injured Threaten
Princes that would their people should do well Must at themselves begin, as at the head; For men, by their example, pattern out Their limitations, and regard of laws: A virtuous court a world to virtue draws.
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Example Law Men Patteren People
A good life is a main argument.
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Argument Good Inspirational Life

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