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Books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction.

Ben Jonson

Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.
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Folly Impudence Rudeness
The world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
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Conceited Fools Rome Two
Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
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Passion Spiritual Understanding
In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
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Absence Hope Love Miss Sweet
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
Success hath made me wanton.
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Hath Made Success Wanton
God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man’s dearer than to himself.
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Men Strange Wrecks
The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.
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Birthday Praying Return
Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
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Frail Memories Mind
Books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction.
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Book Faithful May
Rich apparel has strange virtues; it makes him that hath it without means esteemed for an excellent wit; he that enjoys it with means puts the world in remembrance of his means.
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Mean Remembrance Rich World
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
Let argument bear no unmusical sound.
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Argument Bears Sound
For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries: to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of his own style.
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Exercise Men Writing
To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
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Change Men Want Welcome
The two chief things that give a man reputation in counsel, are the opinion of his honesty, and the opinion of his wisdom; the authority of those two will persuade.
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Honesty Men Persuade Simple Two Wisdom

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