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Force works on servile natures, not the free.

Ben Jonson

Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.
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Art Men Monsters
Prevent your day at morning.
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Day Morning Prevent
Our whole life is like a play.
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Life Play Whole
Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
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Ambition Needs Slave
Drink today, and drown all sorrow; You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow; Best, while you have it, use your breath; There is no drinking after death.
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Drinking Sorrow Use
Many punishments sometimes, and in some cases, as much discredit a prince as many funerals a physician.
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Funeral Physicians Punishment
I have no urns, no dusty monuments; No broken images of ancestors, Wanting an ear, or nose; no forged tales Of long descents, to boast false honors from.
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Broken Honor Long
For he that once is good, is ever great.
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Good Greatness Once
Your highest female grace is silence.
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Female Grace Silence
Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.
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Affliction Person Prayer Wicked
Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star.
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Fall Love Stars
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 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
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
The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.
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Birthday Praying Return
A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.
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Gratitude Men Needs

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