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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.

Ben Jonson

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
It holds for good polity ever, to have that outwardly in vilest estimation, which inwardly is most dear to us.
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Dear Estimation Hypocrisy
Books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction.
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Book Faithful May
Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
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Disease Talking
The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
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Men Money
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
Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
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Dream Hate Hatred
To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
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Change Men Want Welcome
God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man’s dearer than to himself.
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Men Strange Wrecks
Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast, Still to be powder’d, all perfum’d. Lady, it is to be presumed, Though art’s hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound.
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Art Causes Drest Near Sweet
The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
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Evil Hate Men Oppress
Money never made any man rich, but his mind. He that can order himself to the law of nature, is not only without the sense, but the fear of poverty.
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Law Men Mind Order Sense
Nor shall our cups make any guilty men; But at our parting, we will be, as when We innocently met.
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Cup Drinking Men
Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
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Hate Hatred Ignorant
Confound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
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Funny Humor Ideas
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

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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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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