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There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.

Ben Jonson

No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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Glasses Men Speech
True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
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Joy Speak Tongue
A good king is a public servant.
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Good King Kings Servant
Confound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
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Funny Humor Ideas
Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
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Ambition Needs Slave
God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man’s dearer than to himself.
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Men Strange Wrecks
Nor shall our cups make any guilty men; But at our parting, we will be, as when We innocently met.
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Cup Drinking Men
A good dog deserves a good bone.
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Bones Canine Dog
Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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Force Free Nature Servile
Peace is never more than one thought away.
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Away Harmony More Peace
Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.
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Affliction Person Prayer Wicked
Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
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Court Deny Mistress
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
He was not of an age, but for all time!
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Age Time
For he that once is good, is ever great.
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Good Greatness Once
We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.
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Fashion Quality Women

There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.

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