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If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick

Ben Jonson

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
To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.
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Long Pleasure Treasure
You learn nothing about someone by the way they win the fight, you learn everything about the way they lose and keep coming back.
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Art Fighting Winning
Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.
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Guilt Guilty Shame
It is less dishonor to hear imperfectly than to speak imperfectly. The ears are excused; the understanding is not.
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Ears Speak Understanding
To struggle when hope is banished! To live when life’s salt is gone! To dwell in a dream that’s vanished- To endure, and go calmly on!
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Dream Life Struggle Vanish
Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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Force Free Nature Servile
True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
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Joy Speak Tongue
Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
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Clothes Countenance Wit
It is as great a spite to be praised in the wrong place, and by a wrong person, as can be done to a noble nature.
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Done Noble Person Wrong
I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.
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Affected Eloquence Foolish
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
Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
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Mind Punishment Vices
Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
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Art Enemy Ignorance
Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.
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Disease Mean Music
He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
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Honesty Vulgar
You are not now to think what’s best to do, As in beginnings, but what must be done, Being thus enter’d; and slip no advantage That may secure you. Let them call it mischief; When it is past, and prosper’d , ’twill be virtue.
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Mischief Past Virtue
He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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Art Fool Inspirational
No simple word That shall be uttered at our mirthful board, Shall make us sad next morning; or affright The liberty that we’ll enjoy to-night.
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Morning Regret Simple
The way to rise is to obey and please.
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Please Success Way
Silence in woman is like speech in man.
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Men Silence Speech
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
Poor worms, they hiss at me, whilst I at home Can be contented to applaud myself, . . . with joy To see how plump my bags are and my barns.
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Home Joy
The burnt child dreads the fire.
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Children Dread Fire
He that is respectless in his courses oft sells his reputation at cheap market.
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Courses Reputation Sells
True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
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Friendship Happiness Positive
Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.
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Looks Meaning Weigh

If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick

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