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Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.

Ben Jonson

Hang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.
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Care Cat Sorrow
I am beholden to calumny, that she hath so endeavored to belie me.-It shall make me set a surer guard on myself, and keep a better watch upon my actions.
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Action Calumny Watches
He that is respectless in his courses oft sells his reputation at cheap market.
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Courses Reputation Sells
Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
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Imperfect Light Opinion Things
The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
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Dignity Life Losing
Peace is never more than one thought away.
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Away Harmony More Peace
How near to good is what is fair!
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Fairs Good Goodness Near
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
A good poet’s made as well as born.
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Born Made Poet
Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
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Anxiety Care Possession
Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.
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Affliction Person Prayer Wicked
Nor for my peace will I go far, As wanderers do, that still do roam, But make my strengths, such as they are, Here in my bosom, and at home.
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Home Stills Wanderers
Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.
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Past Winning Years
Fortune, that favors fools.
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Favors Fool Fortune
Forbear, you things That stand upon the pinnacles of state, To boast your slippery height! when you do fall, You dash yourselves in pieces, ne’er to rise: And he that lends you pity, is not wise.
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Boast Fall Pieces Wise
Confound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
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