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How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!

Ben Jonson

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
They, who know no evil, will suspect none.
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Evil Knows Suspect
Princes that would their people should do well Must at themselves begin, as at the head; For men, by their example, pattern out Their limitations, and regard of laws: A virtuous court a world to virtue draws.
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Example Law Men Patteren People
Queen and huntress, chaste and fair Now the sun is laid to sleep, Seated in thy silver chair, State in wonted manner keep: Hesperus entreats thy light Goddess, excellently bright.
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Chair Light Queens Seated Sleep
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
Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
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Boys Mean Money
Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
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Imperfect Light Opinion Things
That old bald cheater, Time.
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Bald Cheater Old Time
Guilt’s a terrible thing.
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Guilt Terrible Things
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
Minds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause: ‘Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause.
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Applause Crowns Mind Virtue
Poets are far rarer birds than kings.
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Bird Kings Poet
It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
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Giving Men Virtue
Our whole life is like a play.
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Life Play Whole
Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
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Lines Sweat Writing

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