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To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.

Ben Jonson

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
Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!
BEN JONSON

May Poetry War
I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.
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Compassion Justice Weakness
He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
BEN JONSON

Art Fool Inspirational
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
I do honor the very flea of his dog.
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Dog Hero Honor
Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.
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Good Man Heaven Men
Men that talk of their own benefits are not believed to talk of them because they have done them, but to have done them because they might talk of them.
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Benefits Done Men
Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
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Anarchy Drinking Thinking
I have discovered that a famed familiarity in great ones is a note of certain usurpation on the less; for great and popular men feign themselves to be servants to others to make those slaves to them.
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Men Popularity Slave
Calumnies are answered best with silence.
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Advice Silence
Silence in woman is like speech in man.
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Men Silence Speech
What excellent fools religion makes of men.
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Men Religion Religious
Princes that would their people should do well Must at themselves begin, as at the head; For men, by their example, pattern out Their limitations, and regard of laws: A virtuous court a world to virtue draws.
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Example Law Men Patteren People
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
All concord’s born of contraries.
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Born Contradiction Contrary

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