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Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.

Ben Jonson

The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
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Dignity Life Losing
Tell troth and shame the devil.
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Devil Shame Truth
Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
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Art Enemy Ignorance
A good king is a public servant.
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Good King Kings Servant
I now think, Love is rather deaf, than blind, For else it could not be, That she, Whom I adore so much, should so slight me, And cast my love behind.
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Blind Love Slight Thinking
Silence in woman is like speech in man.
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Men Silence Speech
To struggle when hope is banished! To live when life’s salt is gone! To dwell in a dream that’s vanished- To endure, and go calmly on!
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Dream Life Struggle Vanish
The way to rise is to obey and please.
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Please Success Way
What excellent fools religion makes of men.
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Men Religion Religious
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
To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
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Communication Motivational Wise
There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
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Fear Hell No Prisoner
Sweet Swan of Avon! What a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear.
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Sight Swans Sweet
For whose sake, henceforth, all his vows be such, As what he loves may never like too much.
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Love May Sake
The world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
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Conceited Fools Rome Two
The burnt child dreads the fire.
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Children Dread Fire
The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.
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Birthday Praying Return
Poor worms, they hiss at me, whilst I at home Can be contented to applaud myself, . . . with joy To see how plump my bags are and my barns.
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Home Joy
Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!
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May Poetry War
Many might go to heaven with half the labour they go to hell, if they would venture their industry the right way.
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Half Heaven Venture
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
No man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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Easily May Men Taught Wise
I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.
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Affected Eloquence Foolish
As it is a great point of art, when our matter requires it, to enlarge and veer out all sail, so to take it in and contract it is of no less praise when the argument doth ask it.
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Art Ask Matter Praise Style
Your highest female grace is silence.
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Female Grace Silence
How ready is heaven to those that pray!
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Heaven Prayer Praying
Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!
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Age Delight Soul Wonder

Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.

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