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Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.

Ben Jonson

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
The two chief things that give a man reputation in counsel, are the opinion of his honesty, and the opinion of his wisdom; the authority of those two will persuade.
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Honesty Men Persuade Simple Two Wisdom
There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
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Creeds Doctrine Good Waiting
Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.
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Envy Honor Two
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
A valiant man Ought not to undergo, or tempt a danger, But worthily, and by selected ways, He undertakes with reason, not by chance. His valor is the salt t’ his other virtues, They’re all unseason’d without it.
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Men Salt Way
What excellent fools religion makes of men.
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Men Religion Religious
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
It is less dishonor to hear imperfectly than to speak imperfectly. The ears are excused; the understanding is not.
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Ears Speak Understanding
Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.
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Art Men Monsters
Man and wife make one fool.
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Marriage Men Wife
He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
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Honesty Vulgar
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
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
I now think, Love is rather deaf, than blind, For else it could not be, That she, Whom I adore so much, should so slight me, And cast my love behind.
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Blind Love Slight Thinking
True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
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Joy Speak Tongue

Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.

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