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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.

Ben Jonson

Wine it is the milk of Venus, And the poet’s horse accounted: Ply it and you all are mounted.
BEN JONSON

Horse Plies Wine
To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
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Communication Motivational Wise
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
Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
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Beast Flattery Tyrant
He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.
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Glory Servant Virtue
Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
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Ambition Needs Slave
Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.
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Cutting Men Whispering
There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
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Fear Hell No Prisoner
The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
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Acknowledge Ass Devil
Nothing is more short-lived than pride.
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Live Pride Short
Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
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Leadership May Men
They, who know no evil, will suspect none.
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Evil Knows Suspect
I know no disease of the soul but ignorance, a pernicious evil, the darkener of man’s life, the disturber of his reason, and common confounder of truth.
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Ignorance Men Science
For whose sake, henceforth, all his vows be such, As what he loves may never like too much.
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Love May Sake
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
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

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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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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