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Peace is never more than one thought away.

Ben Jonson

Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.
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Looks Meaning Weigh
A good poet’s made as well as born.
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Born Made Poet
Greatness of name, in the father, ofttimes helps not forth, but overwhelms the son: They stand too near one another. The shadow kills the growth.
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Father Greatness Son
The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.
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Men Smoking
Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
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Disease Talking
Sweet Swan of Avon! What a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear.
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Sight Swans Sweet
He was not of an age, but for all time!
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Age Time
Guilt’s a terrible thing.
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Guilt Terrible Things
Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.
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Envy Honor Two
Language most shows a man; speak that I may see thee; it springs out of the most retired and inmost parts of us, and is the image of the parent of it, the mind. No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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Glasses Men Spring
It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.
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Art Giving Lying
He threatens many that hath injured one.
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Crime Injured Threaten
It is the highest of earthly honors to be descended from the great and good. They alone cry out against a noble ancestry who have none of their own.
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Ancestry Honor Noble
A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.
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Gratitude Men Needs
Honor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.
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Hate Honor Men Time
To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
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Change Men Want Welcome

Peace is never more than one thought away.

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