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All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.

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
Prevent your day at morning.
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Day Morning Prevent
Success hath made me wanton.
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Hath Made Success Wanton
It is a note Of upstart greatness to observe and watch For these poor trifles, which the noble mind Neglects and scorns.
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Greatness Mind Scorn Watches
Tell troth and shame the devil.
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Devil Shame Truth
Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.
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Looks Meaning Weigh
Confound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
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Funny Humor Ideas
Ambition, like a torrent, ne’er looks back; And is a swelling, and the last affection A high mind can put off; being both a rebel Unto the soul and reason, and enforceth All laws, all conscience, treads upon religion, and offereth violence to nature’s self.
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Ambition Conscience Law Rebel Self Soul
All concord’s born of contraries.
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Born Contradiction Contrary
The burnt child dreads the fire.
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Children Dread Fire
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
He that is respectless in his courses oft sells his reputation at cheap market.
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Courses Reputation Sells
Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
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Disease Talking
A good poet’s made as well as born.
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Born Made Poet
True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
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Joy Speak Tongue
It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
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Giving Men Virtue

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