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Truth is man’s proper good, and the only immortal thing was given to our mortality to use.

Ben Jonson

For they have the authority of years, and out of their intermission do win to themselves a kind of grace-like newness. But the eldest of the present, and newest of the past Language, is the best.
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Intermission Newest Present Themselves
Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
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Passion Spiritual Understanding
Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.
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Affliction Person Prayer Wicked
Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
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Disease Talking
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
And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow’d them with her odorous foot.
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Feet Flower Roots
Wine it is the milk of Venus, And the poet’s horse accounted: Ply it and you all are mounted.
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Horse Plies Wine
The way to rise is to obey and please.
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Please Success Way
Freedom doth with degree dispense.
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Degree Dispense Freedom
The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.
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Birthday Praying Return
For he that once is good, is ever great.
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Good Greatness Once
Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.
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Praise Strikes Strokes
What excellent fools religion makes of men.
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Men Religion Religious
Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
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Faces Home House
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
Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.
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Art Men Monsters

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