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All concord’s born of contraries.

Ben Jonson

The two chief things that give a man reputation in counsel, are the opinion of his honesty, and the opinion of his wisdom; the authority of those two will persuade.
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Honesty Men Persuade Simple Two Wisdom
Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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Fortune Men
Hang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.
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Care Cat Sorrow
I have discovered that a famed familiarity in great ones is a note of certain usurpation on the less; for great and popular men feign themselves to be servants to others to make those slaves to them.
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Men Popularity Slave
No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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Glasses Men Speech
True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
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Joy Speak Tongue
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
Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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Force Free Nature Servile
If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
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Illness Neurosis Sick
Sweet meat must have sour sauce.
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Meat Swans Sweet
Confound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
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Funny Humor Ideas
Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
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Boys Mean Money
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
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
Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
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Death Good Man 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

All concord’s born of contraries.

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