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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.

Ben Jonson

A good king is a public servant.
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Good King Kings Servant
He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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Art Fool Inspirational
Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
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Art Enemy Ignorance
Fear to do base, unworthy things is valor; if they be one to us, to suffer them is valor too.
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Courage Suffering Valor
Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
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Angry Concern Slander
No man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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Easily May Men Taught Wise
Silence in woman is like speech in man.
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Men Silence Speech
Where dost thou careless lie, Buried in ease and sloth? Knowledge that sleeps, doth die; And this security, It is the common moth, That eats on wits and arts, and oft destroys them both.
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Art Common Lying Security Sleep
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
Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.
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Art Men Monsters
The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.
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Men Smoking
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
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
Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
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Ambition Inspiration Looks
Money never made any man rich, but his mind. He that can order himself to the law of nature, is not only without the sense, but the fear of poverty.
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Law Men Mind Order Sense
There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
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Fear Hell No Prisoner

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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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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