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Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.

Ben Jonson

Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.
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Heart Hypocrisy Spread
Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
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Imperfect Light Opinion Things
The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.
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Infinite Men Soul
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
Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
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Beast Fats Mischief
Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.
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Past Winning Years
Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.
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Affliction Person Prayer Wicked
Now we are all fallen, youth from their fear, And age from that which bred it, good example.
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Age Example Fallen Good Youth
Poets are far rarer birds than kings.
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Bird Kings Poet
It is the highest of earthly honors to be descended from the great and good. They alone cry out against a noble ancestry who have none of their own.
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Ancestry Honor Noble
True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
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Joy Speak Tongue
O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
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Forget Sun Time
Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
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Ambition Needs Slave
For they have the authority of years, and out of their intermission do win to themselves a kind of grace-like newness. But the eldest of the present, and newest of the past Language, is the best.
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Intermission Newest Present Themselves
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
A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
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Good Loss Men Rise

Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.

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