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Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.

Ben Jonson

I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.
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Affected Eloquence Foolish
Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.
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Folly Impudence Rudeness
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
Hang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.
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Care Cat Sorrow
That I might live alone once with my gold! O, ’tis a sweet companion! kind and true: A man may trust it when his father cheats him, Brother, or friend, or wife. O wondrous pelf! That which makes all men false, is true itself.
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Alone Brother Companions Money Sweet
Minds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause: ‘Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause.
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Applause Crowns Mind Virtue
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
Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.
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Good Man Heaven Men
I do honor the very flea of his dog.
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Dog Hero Honor
Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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Force Free Nature Servile
Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
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Imperfect Light Opinion Things
There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
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Fear Hell No Prisoner
Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
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Mind Punishment Vices
Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
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Ambition Inspiration Looks
… the best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle.
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Anchors Needs Sea
Blueness doth express trueness.
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Color Trueness
True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
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Joy Speak Tongue
Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.
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Guilt Guilty Shame
The world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
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Conceited Fools Rome Two
How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
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Fortune Practise Sports
You are not now to think what’s best to do, As in beginnings, but what must be done, Being thus enter’d; and slip no advantage That may secure you. Let them call it mischief; When it is past, and prosper’d , ’twill be virtue.
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Mischief Past Virtue
Prevent your day at morning.
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Day Morning Prevent
Wine it is the milk of Venus, And the poet’s horse accounted: Ply it and you all are mounted.
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Horse Plies Wine
Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.
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Good Time Illustrate Men Stars
The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
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Acknowledge Ass Devil
A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pestilence, it doth infect the houses of the brain till not a thought, or motion, in the mind, be free from the black poison of suspect.
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Black Brain House
To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
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Change Men Want Welcome

Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.

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