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I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.

Ben Jonson

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
The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
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Orators Oratory Poet
Blueness doth express trueness.
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Color Trueness
Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.
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Art Men Monsters
Queen and huntress, chaste and fair Now the sun is laid to sleep, Seated in thy silver chair, State in wonted manner keep: Hesperus entreats thy light Goddess, excellently bright.
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Chair Light Queens Seated Sleep
There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
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Fear Hell No Prisoner
Our whole life is like a play.
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Life Play Whole
I now think, Love is rather deaf, than blind, For else it could not be, That she, Whom I adore so much, should so slight me, And cast my love behind.
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Blind Love Slight Thinking
Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
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Death Good Man Men
A good king is a public servant.
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Good King Kings Servant
… the best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle.
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Anchors Needs Sea
Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star.
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Fall Love Stars
If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
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Illness Neurosis Sick
Nor use too swelling, or ill-sounded words . . . .
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Sounded Swelling Use Words
Many punishments sometimes, and in some cases, as much discredit a prince as many funerals a physician.
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Funeral Physicians Punishment
[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.
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Conceited English Plain Play

I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.

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