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

Ben Jonson

Books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction.
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Book Faithful May
He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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Art Fool Inspirational
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
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
Very few men are wise by their own council, or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself, had a fool for a master.
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Men Teaching Wise
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
Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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Force Free Nature Servile
Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
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Mind Punishment Vices
Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
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Faces Home House
Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
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Book Looks Reader
To struggle when hope is banished! To live when life’s salt is gone! To dwell in a dream that’s vanished- To endure, and go calmly on!
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Dream Life Struggle Vanish
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
Honor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.
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Hate Honor Men Time
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
Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
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Passion Spiritual Understanding
Tell troth and shame the devil.
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Devil Shame Truth

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