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He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.

Ben Jonson

A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
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Eye Government Letter
You are not now to think what’s best to do, As in beginnings, but what must be done, Being thus enter’d; and slip no advantage That may secure you. Let them call it mischief; When it is past, and prosper’d , ’twill be virtue.
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Mischief Past Virtue
Silence in woman is like speech in man.
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Men Silence Speech
Peace is never more than one thought away.
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Away Harmony More Peace
A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
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Good Loss Men Rise
He threatens many that hath injured one.
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Crime Injured Threaten
Minds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause: ‘Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause.
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Applause Crowns Mind Virtue
No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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Glasses Men Speech
Nor use too swelling, or ill-sounded words . . . .
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Sounded Swelling Use Words
The two chief things that give a man reputation in counsel, are the opinion of his honesty, and the opinion of his wisdom; the authority of those two will persuade.
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Honesty Men Persuade Simple Two Wisdom
Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
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Lines Sweat Writing
It is the highest of earthly honors to be descended from the great and good. They alone cry out against a noble ancestry who have none of their own.
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Ancestry Honor Noble
We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.
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Fashion Quality Women
Follow a shadow, it still flies you, Seem to fly, it will pursue: So court a mistress, she denies you; Let her alone, she will court you. Say are not women truly, then, Styled but the shadows of us men?
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Men Mistress Shadow
A lily of a day Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be.
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Die Fall Flower Night Proportion
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

He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.

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