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Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.

Ben Jonson

Many punishments sometimes, and in some cases, as much discredit a prince as many funerals a physician.
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Funeral Physicians Punishment
I feel my griefs too, and there scarce is ground Upon my flesh t’inflict another wound. Yet dare I not complain, or wish for death With holy Paul; lest it be thought the breath Of discontent; or that these prayers be For weariness of life, not love of thee.
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Another Grief Prayer Weariness Wish Wound
Rich apparel has strange virtues; it makes him that hath it without means esteemed for an excellent wit; he that enjoys it with means puts the world in remembrance of his means.
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Mean Remembrance Rich World
Man and wife make one fool.
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Marriage Men Wife
The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
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Orators Oratory Poet
Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.
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Envy Honor Two
The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
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Men Money
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
Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.
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Praise Strikes Strokes
It strikes! one, two, Three, four, five, six. Enough, enough, dear watch, Thy pulse hath beat enough. Now sleep and rest; Would thou could’st make the time to do so too; I’ll wind thee up no more.
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Enough Pulse Sleep Time Wind
Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!
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May Poetry War
A good life is a main argument.
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Argument Good Inspirational Life
Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
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Beast Flattery Tyrant
All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
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Discourse Harsh Speech
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
How ready is heaven to those that pray!
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Heaven Prayer Praying

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