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Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.

Ben Jonson

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
Indeed there’s a woundy luck in names.
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Indeed Luck Names Woundy
A good king is a public servant.
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Good King Kings Servant
Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
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Frail Memories Mind
I have no urns, no dusty monuments; No broken images of ancestors, Wanting an ear, or nose; no forged tales Of long descents, to boast false honors from.
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Broken Honor Long
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
It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
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Giving Men Virtue
When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity.
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Enemy Grief Men
Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace Robes loosely flowing, hair as free Such sweet neglect more taketh me Than all the adulteries of art: They strike mine eyes, but not my heart.
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Art Eye Neglect Simplicity Sweet
No simple word That shall be uttered at our mirthful board, Shall make us sad next morning; or affright The liberty that we’ll enjoy to-night.
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Morning Regret Simple
One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
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Character Trouble Women
Hang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.
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Care Cat Sorrow
You learn nothing about someone by the way they win the fight, you learn everything about the way they lose and keep coming back.
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Art Fighting Winning
It is less dishonor to hear imperfectly than to speak imperfectly. The ears are excused; the understanding is not.
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Ears Speak Understanding
Many might go to heaven with half the labour they go to hell, if they would venture their industry the right way.
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Half Heaven Venture
A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.
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Gratitude Men Needs

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