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

Ben Jonson

Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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Force Free Nature Servile
One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
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Character Trouble Women
The way to rise is to obey and please.
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Please Success Way
And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow’d them with her odorous foot.
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Feet Flower Roots
Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
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Angry Concern Slander
Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.
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Good Time Illustrate Men Stars
O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
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Forget Sun Time
Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.
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Heart Hypocrisy Spread
He that is respectless in his courses oft sells his reputation at cheap market.
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Courses Reputation Sells
It is a note Of upstart greatness to observe and watch For these poor trifles, which the noble mind Neglects and scorns.
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Greatness Mind Scorn Watches
He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.
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Glory Servant Virtue
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
Honor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.
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Hate Honor Men Time
There is no bounty to be showed to such As have real goodness: Bounty is A spice of virtue; and what virtuous act Can take effect on them that have no power Of equal habitude to apprehend it?
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Real Spices Virtue
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
They, who know no evil, will suspect none.
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Evil Knows Suspect

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

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