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Fortune, that favors fools.

Ben Jonson

Princes that would their people should do well Must at themselves begin, as at the head; For men, by their example, pattern out Their limitations, and regard of laws: A virtuous court a world to virtue draws.
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Example Law Men Patteren People
True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
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Joy Speak Tongue
Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!
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Age Delight Soul Wonder
Your highest female grace is silence.
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Female Grace Silence
The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
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Evil Hate Men Oppress
Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.
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Looks Meaning Weigh
I know no disease of the soul but ignorance, a pernicious evil, the darkener of man’s life, the disturber of his reason, and common confounder of truth.
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Ignorance Men Science
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
That old bald cheater, Time.
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Bald Cheater Old Time
The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.
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Men Smoking
No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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Glasses Men Speech
Hang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.
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Care Cat Sorrow
If men will impartially, and not asquint, look toward the offices and function of a poet, they will easily conclude to themselves the impossibility of any man’s being a good poet without first being a good man.
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Good Man Men Office
… the best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle.
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Anchors Needs Sea
Queen and huntress, chaste and fair Now the sun is laid to sleep, Seated in thy silver chair, State in wonted manner keep: Hesperus entreats thy light Goddess, excellently bright.
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Chair Light Queens Seated Sleep
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

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