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Man and wife make one fool.

Ben Jonson

Poets are far rarer birds than kings.
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Bird Kings Poet
Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
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Dream Hate Hatred
Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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Force Free Nature Servile
Truth is man’s proper good, and the only immortal thing was given to our mortality to use.
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Men Truth Use
They, who know no evil, will suspect none.
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Evil Knows Suspect
No man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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Easily May Men Taught Wise
Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star.
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Fall Love Stars
In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
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June Life Perfect Summer
Sweet Swan of Avon! What a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear.
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Sight Swans Sweet
If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
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Illness Neurosis Sick
Confound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
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Funny Humor Ideas
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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Cigarette Smoke Men Smoking
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 the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
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Little Wise World
Money never made any man rich, but his mind. He that can order himself to the law of nature, is not only without the sense, but the fear of poverty.
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Law Men Mind Order Sense
Wine it is the milk of Venus, And the poet’s horse accounted: Ply it and you all are mounted.
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Horse Plies Wine

Man and wife make one fool.

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