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Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.

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Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed That sets his doors wide open to a thief, And shows the felon where his treasure lies?
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Doors Judgment Lying Treasure
To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
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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
I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
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Father Men Parent
Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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Fortune Men
Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
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Hate Hatred Ignorant
Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
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Frail Memories Mind
Poor worms, they hiss at me, whilst I at home Can be contented to applaud myself, . . . with joy To see how plump my bags are and my barns.
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Home Joy
Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!
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May Poetry War
He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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Art Fool Inspirational
I’ll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news.
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False Giving News True
Freedom doth with degree dispense.
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Degree Dispense Freedom
Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
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Angry Concern Slander
A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
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Eye Government Letter
All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
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Discourse Harsh Speech
No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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Glasses Men Speech

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