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Fear to do base, unworthy things is valor; if they be one to us, to suffer them is valor too.

Ben Jonson

Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
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Relax Reputation Ruins
He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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Art Fool Inspirational
Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
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Anarchy Drinking Thinking
Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
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Boys Mean Money
Drink today, and drown all sorrow; You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow; Best, while you have it, use your breath; There is no drinking after death.
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Drinking Sorrow Use
Silence in woman is like speech in man.
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Men Silence Speech
Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
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Lines Sweat Writing
The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
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Dignity Life Losing
God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man’s dearer than to himself.
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Men Strange Wrecks
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 day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.
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Birthday Praying Return
True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
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Fine Melancholy Perfect Wit
Follow a shadow, it still flies you, Seem to fly, it will pursue: So court a mistress, she denies you; Let her alone, she will court you. Say are not women truly, then, Styled but the shadows of us men?
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Men Mistress Shadow
That old bald cheater, Time.
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Bald Cheater Old Time
A good life is a main argument.
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Argument Good Inspirational Life
Guilt’s a terrible thing.
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Guilt Terrible Things

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