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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.

Ben Jonson

Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
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Anarchy Drinking Thinking
Success hath made me wanton.
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Hath Made Success Wanton
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
He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.
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Glory Servant Virtue
Chance will not do the work. Chance sends the breeze; But if the pilot slumber at the helm, The very wind that wafts us tow’rds the port May dash us on the shoals. The steersman’s part Is vigilance, or blow it rough or smooth.
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Blow Slumber Wind
Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
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Relax Reputation Ruins
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
The way to rise is to obey and please.
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Please Success Way
Honor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.
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Hate Honor Men Time
Your highest female grace is silence.
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Female Grace Silence
Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.
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Good Man Heaven Men
… the best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle.
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Anchors Needs Sea
Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
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Court Deny Mistress
How ready is heaven to those that pray!
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Heaven Prayer Praying
The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.
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Men Smoking
He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
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Honesty Vulgar
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
Truth is man’s proper good, and the only immortal thing was given to our mortality to use.
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Men Truth Use
Confound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
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Funny Humor Ideas
It strikes! one, two, Three, four, five, six. Enough, enough, dear watch, Thy pulse hath beat enough. Now sleep and rest; Would thou could’st make the time to do so too; I’ll wind thee up no more.
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Enough Pulse Sleep Time Wind
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
Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
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Beast Flattery Tyrant
I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.
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Affected Eloquence Foolish
Forbear, you things That stand upon the pinnacles of state, To boast your slippery height! when you do fall, You dash yourselves in pieces, ne’er to rise: And he that lends you pity, is not wise.
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Boast Fall Pieces Wise
Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!
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Age Delight Soul Wonder
Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star.
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Fall Love Stars
Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
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Imperfect Light Opinion Things

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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