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

Ben Jonson

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
Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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Fortune Men
The voice so sweet, the words so fair, As some soft chime had stroked the air; And though the sound had parted thence, Still left an echo in the sense.
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Air Echoes Parted Sweet Thence
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
Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
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Ambition Inspiration Looks
O! How vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do.
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Fear Men Passion
In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
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June Life Perfect Summer
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
Honor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.
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Hate Honor Men Time
Poets are far rarer birds than kings.
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Bird Kings Poet
Sweet Swan of Avon! What a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear.
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Sight Swans Sweet
The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
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Evil Hate Men Oppress
Aristotle was the first accurate critic and truest judge nay, the greatest philosopher the world ever had; for he noted the vices of all knowledges, in all creatures, and out of many men’s perfections in a science he formed still one Art.
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Art Judging Men
Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star.
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Fall Love Stars
For they have the authority of years, and out of their intermission do win to themselves a kind of grace-like newness. But the eldest of the present, and newest of the past Language, is the best.
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Intermission Newest Present Themselves
I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.
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Compassion Justice Weakness

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

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