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Silence in woman is like speech in man.

Ben Jonson

That old bald cheater, Time.
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Bald Cheater Old Time
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
Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!
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May Poetry War
And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow’d them with her odorous foot.
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Feet Flower Roots
A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
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Eye Government Letter
Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.
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Good Time Illustrate Men Stars
True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
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Fine Melancholy Perfect Wit
A good man will avoid the spot of any sin. The very aspersion is grievous, which makes him choose his way in his life, as he would in his journey.
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Aspersion Choose Good Journey Men
Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
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Dream Hate Hatred
What excellent fools religion makes of men.
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Men Religion Religious
The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.
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Birthday Praying Return
Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.
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Heart Hypocrisy Spread
The burnt child dreads the fire.
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Children Dread Fire
Indeed there’s a woundy luck in names.
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Indeed Luck Names Woundy
The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
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Evil Hate Men Oppress
Silence in woman is like speech in man.
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Men Silence Speech
One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
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Character Trouble Women
Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
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Book Looks Reader
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
To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
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Change Men Want Welcome
The world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
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Conceited Fools Rome Two
O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
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Forget Sun Time
Blueness doth express trueness.
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Color Trueness
Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
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Beast Flattery Tyrant
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
Freedom doth with degree dispense.
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Degree Dispense Freedom
Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed That sets his doors wide open to a thief, And shows the felon where his treasure lies?
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Doors Judgment Lying Treasure

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