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True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.

Ben Jonson

Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.
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Envy Honor Two
Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
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Dream Hate Hatred
Men that talk of their own benefits are not believed to talk of them because they have done them, but to have done them because they might talk of them.
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Benefits Done Men
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
Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
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Lines Sweat Writing
True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
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Joy Speak Tongue
The world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
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Conceited Fools Rome Two
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
Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.
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Folly Impudence Rudeness
Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
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Mind Punishment Vices
A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pestilence, it doth infect the houses of the brain till not a thought, or motion, in the mind, be free from the black poison of suspect.
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Black Brain House
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
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
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
A good king is a public servant.
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Good King Kings Servant
Your highest female grace is silence.
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Female Grace Silence
Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star.
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Fall Love Stars
It is the highest of earthly honors to be descended from the great and good. They alone cry out against a noble ancestry who have none of their own.
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Ancestry Honor Noble
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
Ods me I marle what pleasure or felicity they have in taking their roguish tobacco. It is good for nothing but to choke a man, and fill him full of smoke and embers.
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Cigarette Smoke Men Smoking
Follow a shadow, it still flies you, Seem to fly, it will pursue: So court a mistress, she denies you; Let her alone, she will court you. Say are not women truly, then, Styled but the shadows of us men?
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Men Mistress Shadow
There is no bounty to be showed to such As have real goodness: Bounty is A spice of virtue; and what virtuous act Can take effect on them that have no power Of equal habitude to apprehend it?
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Real Spices Virtue
Rich apparel has strange virtues; it makes him that hath it without means esteemed for an excellent wit; he that enjoys it with means puts the world in remembrance of his means.
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Mean Remembrance Rich World
Freedom doth with degree dispense.
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Degree Dispense Freedom
He threatens many that hath injured one.
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Crime Injured Threaten
Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
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Faces Home House

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