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Honor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.

Ben Jonson

God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man’s dearer than to himself.
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Men Strange Wrecks
If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.
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Art Being Poverty True
Silence in woman is like speech in man.
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Men Silence Speech
The burnt child dreads the fire.
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Children Dread Fire
Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
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Leadership May Men
In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
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June Life Perfect Summer
Aristotle was the first accurate critic and truest judge nay, the greatest philosopher the world ever had; for he noted the vices of all knowledges, in all creatures, and out of many men’s perfections in a science he formed still one Art.
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Art Judging Men
Nor shall our cups make any guilty men; But at our parting, we will be, as when We innocently met.
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Cup Drinking Men
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
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
Now we are all fallen, youth from their fear, And age from that which bred it, good example.
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Age Example Fallen Good Youth
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
Calumnies are answered best with silence.
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Advice Silence
For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries: to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of his own style.
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Exercise Men Writing
The world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
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Conceited Fools Rome Two
Many punishments sometimes, and in some cases, as much discredit a prince as many funerals a physician.
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Funeral Physicians Punishment

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