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There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.

Ben Jonson

Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
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Hate Hatred Ignorant
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
Sweet Swan of Avon! What a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear.
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Sight Swans Sweet
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
Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.
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Folly Impudence Rudeness
Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
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Dream Hate Hatred
A good king is a public servant.
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Good King Kings Servant
Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
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Disease Talking
Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
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Mind Punishment Vices
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
Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.
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Guilt Guilty Shame
It strikes! one, two, Three, four, five, six. Enough, enough, dear watch, Thy pulse hath beat enough. Now sleep and rest; Would thou could’st make the time to do so too; I’ll wind thee up no more.
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Enough Pulse Sleep Time Wind
You learn nothing about someone by the way they win the fight, you learn everything about the way they lose and keep coming back.
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Art Fighting Winning
Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.
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Disease Mean Music
A good life is a main argument.
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Argument Good Inspirational Life
A good dog deserves a good bone.
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Bones Canine Dog

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