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Princes that would their people should do well Must at themselves begin, as at the head; For men, by their example, pattern out Their limitations, and regard of laws: A virtuous court a world to virtue draws.

Ben Jonson

The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.
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Infinite Men Soul
… the best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle.
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Anchors Needs Sea
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
He was not of an age, but for all time!
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Age Time
The way to rise is to obey and please.
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Please Success Way
Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.
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Praise Strikes Strokes
The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
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Dignity Life Losing
Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
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Angry Concern Slander
Confound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
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Funny Humor Ideas
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
Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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Force Free Nature Servile
Guilt’s a terrible thing.
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Guilt Terrible Things
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
Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
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Anarchy Drinking Thinking
Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.
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Heart Hypocrisy Spread
O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
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Forget Sun Time

Princes that would their people should do well Must at themselves begin, as at the head; For men, by their example, pattern out Their limitations, and regard of laws: A virtuous court a world to virtue draws.

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Princes that would their people should do well Must at themselves begin, as at the head; For men, by their example, pattern out Their limitations, and regard of laws: A virtuous court a world to virtue draws.

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