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Tis no sin love’s fruits to steal; But the sweet thefts to reveal; To be taken, to be seen, These have crimes accounted been.

Ben Jonson

Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.
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Guilt Guilty Shame
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
Fear to do base, unworthy things is valor; if they be one to us, to suffer them is valor too.
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Courage Suffering Valor
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
There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
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Fear Hell No Prisoner
The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
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Acknowledge Ass Devil
Indeed there’s a woundy luck in names.
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Indeed Luck Names Woundy
To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
BEN JONSON

Communication Motivational Wise
I have no urns, no dusty monuments; No broken images of ancestors, Wanting an ear, or nose; no forged tales Of long descents, to boast false honors from.
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Broken Honor Long
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
Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
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Clothes Countenance Wit
Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.
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Good Man Heaven Men
Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
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Frail Memories Mind
My thoughts and I were of another world.
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Another World Thoughts
How ready is heaven to those that pray!
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Heaven Prayer Praying
Blueness doth express trueness.
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Color Trueness

Tis no sin love’s fruits to steal; But the sweet thefts to reveal; To be taken, to be seen, These have crimes accounted been.

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Tis no sin love’s fruits to steal; But the sweet thefts to reveal; To be taken, to be seen, These have crimes accounted been.

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