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

Ben Jonson

If you succeed not, cast not away the quills yet, nor scratch the wainscot, beat not the poor desk, but bring all to the forge and file again; turn it new.
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Crafts Scratches Succeed
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
Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
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Frail Memories Mind
The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
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Orators Oratory Poet
It holds for good polity ever, to have that outwardly in vilest estimation, which inwardly is most dear to us.
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Dear Estimation Hypocrisy
I feel my griefs too, and there scarce is ground Upon my flesh t’inflict another wound. Yet dare I not complain, or wish for death With holy Paul; lest it be thought the breath Of discontent; or that these prayers be For weariness of life, not love of thee.
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Another Grief Prayer Weariness Wish Wound
He was not of an age, but for all time!
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Age Time
Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.
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Folly Impudence Rudeness
Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
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Faces Home House
Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
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Ambition Inspiration Looks
Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.
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Looks Meaning Weigh
Success hath made me wanton.
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Hath Made Success Wanton
Calumnies are answered best with silence.
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Advice Silence
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
Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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Force Free Nature Servile
There is no bounty to be showed to such As have real goodness: Bounty is A spice of virtue; and what virtuous act Can take effect on them that have no power Of equal habitude to apprehend it?
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Real Spices Virtue

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

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