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

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
It holds for good polity ever, to have that outwardly in vilest estimation, which inwardly is most dear to us.
BEN JONSON

Dear Estimation Hypocrisy
Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.
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Art Men Monsters
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
Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
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Imperfect Light Opinion Things
The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.
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Birthday Praying Return
Greatness of name, in the father, ofttimes helps not forth, but overwhelms the son: They stand too near one another. The shadow kills the growth.
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Father Greatness Son
Prevent your day at morning.
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Day Morning Prevent
Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
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Hate Hatred Ignorant
They, who know no evil, will suspect none.
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Evil Knows Suspect
Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.
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Cutting Men Whispering
Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.
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Affliction Person Prayer Wicked
Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
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Ambition Inspiration Looks
The way to rise is to obey and please.
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Please Success Way
All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
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Discourse Harsh Speech
Ready writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing.
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Good Ready Writing

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