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A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.

Ben Jonson

Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.
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Past Winning Years
Honor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.
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Hate Honor Men Time
Sweet meat must have sour sauce.
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Meat Swans Sweet
Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
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Dream Hate Hatred
A good dog deserves a good bone.
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Bones Canine Dog
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.
BEN JONSON

Another Grief Prayer Weariness Wish Wound
To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.
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Long Pleasure Treasure
Sweet Swan of Avon! What a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear.
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Sight Swans Sweet
[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.
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Conceited English Plain Play
That old bald cheater, Time.
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Bald Cheater Old Time
Success hath made me wanton.
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Hath Made Success Wanton
In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
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Absence Hope Love Miss Sweet
Hang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.
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Care Cat Sorrow
Fear to do base, unworthy things is valor; if they be one to us, to suffer them is valor too.
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Courage Suffering Valor
Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
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Death Good Man Men
God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man’s dearer than to himself.
BEN JONSON

Men Strange Wrecks

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