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He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

Ben Jonson

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
What excellent fools religion makes of men.
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Men Religion Religious
I’ll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news.
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False Giving News True
Many punishments sometimes, and in some cases, as much discredit a prince as many funerals a physician.
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Funeral Physicians Punishment
Sweet Swan of Avon! What a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear.
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Sight Swans Sweet
Ods me I marle what pleasure or felicity they have in taking their roguish tobacco. It is good for nothing but to choke a man, and fill him full of smoke and embers.
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Cigarette Smoke Men Smoking
Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.
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Art Men Monsters
I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
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Glory Greed Wealth
Forbear, you things That stand upon the pinnacles of state, To boast your slippery height! when you do fall, You dash yourselves in pieces, ne’er to rise: And he that lends you pity, is not wise.
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Boast Fall Pieces Wise
Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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Force Free Nature Servile
Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
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Ambition Inspiration Looks
Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
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Hate Hatred Ignorant
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
He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.
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Glory Servant Virtue
Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed That sets his doors wide open to a thief, And shows the felon where his treasure lies?
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Doors Judgment Lying Treasure
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

He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

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