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The burnt child dreads the fire.

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The way to rise is to obey and please.
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Please Success Way
He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
BEN JONSON

Honesty Vulgar
A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
BEN JONSON

Good Loss Men Rise
Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
BEN JONSON

Hate Hatred Ignorant
If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
BEN JONSON

Illness Neurosis Sick
The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.
BEN JONSON

Men Smoking
All concord’s born of contraries.
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Born Contradiction Contrary
If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.
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Art Being Poverty True
Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
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Book Looks Reader
Sweet Swan of Avon! What a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear.
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Sight Swans Sweet
It holds for good polity ever, to have that outwardly in vilest estimation, which inwardly is most dear to us.
BEN JONSON

Dear Estimation Hypocrisy
A valiant man Ought not to undergo, or tempt a danger, But worthily, and by selected ways, He undertakes with reason, not by chance. His valor is the salt t’ his other virtues, They’re all unseason’d without it.
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Men Salt Way
O! How vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do.
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Fear Men Passion
To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.
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Long Pleasure Treasure
Honor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.
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Hate Honor Men Time
Very few men are wise by their own council, or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself, had a fool for a master.
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Men Teaching Wise

The burnt child dreads the fire.

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