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It holds for good polity ever, to have that outwardly in vilest estimation, which inwardly is most dear to us.

Ben Jonson

I know no disease of the soul but ignorance, a pernicious evil, the darkener of man’s life, the disturber of his reason, and common confounder of truth.
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Ignorance Men Science
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
A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.
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Gratitude Men Needs
Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
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Anarchy Drinking Thinking
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
I do honor the very flea of his dog.
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Dog Hero Honor
If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
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Illness Neurosis Sick
When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity.
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Enemy Grief Men
He threatens many that hath injured one.
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Crime Injured Threaten
The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
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Dignity Life Losing
All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
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Discourse Harsh Speech
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
The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
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Men Money
Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.
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Heart Hypocrisy Spread
You learn nothing about someone by the way they win the fight, you learn everything about the way they lose and keep coming back.
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Art Fighting Winning
It is as great a spite to be praised in the wrong place, and by a wrong person, as can be done to a noble nature.
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Done Noble Person Wrong

It holds for good polity ever, to have that outwardly in vilest estimation, which inwardly is most dear to us.

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