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[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.

Ben Jonson

Now we are all fallen, youth from their fear, And age from that which bred it, good example.
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Age Example Fallen Good Youth
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 see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.
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Compassion Justice Weakness
The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
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Evil Hate Men Oppress
Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.
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Affliction Person Prayer Wicked
Prevent your day at morning.
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Day Morning Prevent
Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.
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Folly Impudence Rudeness
There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
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Creeds Doctrine Good Waiting
Man and wife make one fool.
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Marriage Men Wife
Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
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Ambition Needs Slave
Peace is never more than one thought away.
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Away Harmony More Peace
A good man will avoid the spot of any sin. The very aspersion is grievous, which makes him choose his way in his life, as he would in his journey.
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Aspersion Choose Good Journey Men
Freedom doth with degree dispense.
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Degree Dispense Freedom
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
All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
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Little Wise World
Hang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.
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Care Cat Sorrow

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