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Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.

Ben Jonson

That I might live alone once with my gold! O, ’tis a sweet companion! kind and true: A man may trust it when his father cheats him, Brother, or friend, or wife. O wondrous pelf! That which makes all men false, is true itself.
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Alone Brother Companions Money Sweet
Calumnies are answered best with silence.
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Advice Silence
Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
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Anxiety Care Possession
Hang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.
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Care Cat Sorrow
Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
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Leadership May 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
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
One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
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Character Trouble Women
A good king is a public servant.
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Good King Kings Servant
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
Forbear, you things That stand upon the pinnacles of state, To boast your slippery height! when you do fall, You dash yourselves in pieces, ne’er to rise: And he that lends you pity, is not wise.
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Boast Fall Pieces Wise
They, who know no evil, will suspect none.
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Evil Knows Suspect
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
A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
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Eye Government Letter
It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
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Giving Men Virtue
Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed That sets his doors wide open to a thief, And shows the felon where his treasure lies?
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Doors Judgment Lying Treasure

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