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It is a note Of upstart greatness to observe and watch For these poor trifles, which the noble mind Neglects and scorns.

Ben Jonson

What excellent fools religion makes of men.
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Men Religion Religious
Nor for my peace will I go far, As wanderers do, that still do roam, But make my strengths, such as they are, Here in my bosom, and at home.
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Home Stills Wanderers
One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
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Character Trouble Women
How ready is heaven to those that pray!
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Heaven Prayer Praying
Very few men are wise by their own council, or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself, had a fool for a master.
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Men Teaching Wise
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
No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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Glasses Men Speech
Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.
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Art Men Monsters
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
Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
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Beast Fats Mischief
Greatness of name, in the father, ofttimes helps not forth, but overwhelms the son: They stand too near one another. The shadow kills the growth.
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Father Greatness Son
To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
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Change Men Want Welcome
I’ll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news.
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False Giving News True
The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
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Orators Oratory Poet
I am beholden to calumny, that she hath so endeavored to belie me.-It shall make me set a surer guard on myself, and keep a better watch upon my actions.
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Action Calumny Watches
Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
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Anxiety Care Possession

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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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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