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Many might go to heaven with half the labour they go to hell, if they would venture their industry the right way.

Ben Jonson

True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
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Friendship Happiness Positive
Sweet meat must have sour sauce.
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Meat Swans Sweet
And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow’d them with her odorous foot.
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Feet Flower Roots
All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
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Discourse Harsh Speech
[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.
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Conceited English Plain Play
I have been at my book; and am now past the craggy paths of study, and come to the flowery plains of honour and reputation
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Education Inspirational Past
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
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
All concord’s born of contraries.
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Born Contradiction Contrary
A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.
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Gratitude Men Needs
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
Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
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Book Looks Reader
Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
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Leadership May Men
How ready is heaven to those that pray!
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Heaven Prayer Praying
Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.
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Art Men Monsters
Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
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Death Good Man Men
Forbear, you things That stand upon the pinnacles of state, To boast your slippery height! when you do fall, You dash yourselves in pieces, ne’er to rise: And he that lends you pity, is not wise.
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Boast Fall Pieces Wise
Many might go to heaven with half the labour they go to hell, if they would venture their industry the right way.
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Half Heaven Venture
Hell itself must yield to industry.
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Hell Industry Yield
Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.
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Good Man Heaven Men
Confound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
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Funny Humor Ideas
The burnt child dreads the fire.
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Children Dread Fire
True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
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Fine Melancholy Perfect Wit
Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.
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Beer Drink Wells
True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
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Joy Speak Tongue
Princes that would their people should do well Must at themselves begin, as at the head; For men, by their example, pattern out Their limitations, and regard of laws: A virtuous court a world to virtue draws.
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Example Law Men Patteren People
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

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