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Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.

Ben Jonson

I have discovered that a famed familiarity in great ones is a note of certain usurpation on the less; for great and popular men feign themselves to be servants to others to make those slaves to them.
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Men Popularity Slave
Money never made any man rich, but his mind. He that can order himself to the law of nature, is not only without the sense, but the fear of poverty.
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Law Men Mind Order Sense
It holds for good polity ever, to have that outwardly in vilest estimation, which inwardly is most dear to us.
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Dear Estimation Hypocrisy
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
How near to good is what is fair!
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Fairs Good Goodness Near
Success hath made me wanton.
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Hath Made Success Wanton
Nor for my peace will I go far, As wanderers do, that still do roam, But make my strengths, such as they are, Here in my bosom, and at home.
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Home Stills Wanderers
Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.
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Cutting Men Whispering
Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.
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Heart Hypocrisy Spread
Sweet meat must have sour sauce.
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Meat Swans Sweet
The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
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Evil Hate Men Oppress
Tell troth and shame the devil.
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Devil Shame Truth
Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
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Anxiety Care Possession
A good king is a public servant.
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Good King Kings Servant
How ready is heaven to those that pray!
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Heaven Prayer Praying
Language most shows a man; speak that I may see thee; it springs out of the most retired and inmost parts of us, and is the image of the parent of it, the mind. No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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Glasses Men Spring

Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.

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