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If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick

Ben Jonson

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
The way to rise is to obey and please.
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Please Success Way
Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
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Faces Home House
Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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Fortune Men
For whose sake, henceforth, all his vows be such, As what he loves may never like too much.
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Love May Sake
The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.
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Men Smoking
He threatens many that hath injured one.
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Crime Injured Threaten
True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
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Friendship Happiness Positive
Let argument bear no unmusical sound.
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Argument Bears Sound
Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
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Leadership May Men
Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.
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Praise Strikes Strokes
As it is a great point of art, when our matter requires it, to enlarge and veer out all sail, so to take it in and contract it is of no less praise when the argument doth ask it.
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Art Ask Matter Praise Style
I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never plotted out a line. My answer hath been, would he had blotted a thousand.
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Answer Lines Mention Penend Player Writing
Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
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Frail Memories Mind
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
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

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