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Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.

Ben Jonson

It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.
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Art Giving Lying
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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Honesty Men Persuade Simple Two Wisdom
The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.
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Men Smoking
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
The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
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Evil Hate Men Oppress
Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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Force Free Nature Servile
Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
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Dream Hate Hatred
Whosoever loves not picture is injurious to truth, and all the wisdom of poetry. Picture is the invention of heaven, the most ancient and most akin to nature. It is itself a silent work, and always one and the same habit.
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Ancient Heaven Silent
Hang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.
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Care Cat Sorrow
Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
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Hate Hatred Ignorant
A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.
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Gratitude Men Needs
He threatens many that hath injured one.
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Crime Injured Threaten
Nor use too swelling, or ill-sounded words . . . .
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Sounded Swelling Use Words
God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man’s dearer than to himself.
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Men Strange Wrecks
Guilt’s a terrible thing.
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Guilt Terrible Things
If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
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Illness Neurosis Sick

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