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

Ben Jonson

Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
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Ambition Needs Slave
I am beholden to calumny, that she hath so endeavored to belie me.-It shall make me set a surer guard on myself, and keep a better watch upon my actions.
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Action Calumny Watches
Tis no sin love’s fruits to steal; But the sweet thefts to reveal; To be taken, to be seen, These have crimes accounted been.
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Fruit Sweet Taken
Fear to do base, unworthy things is valor; if they be one to us, to suffer them is valor too.
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Courage Suffering Valor
O! How vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do.
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Fear Men Passion
If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.
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Art Being Poverty True
Silence in woman is like speech in man.
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Men Silence Speech
Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
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Book Looks Reader
A good king is a public servant.
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Good King Kings Servant
Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
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Anxiety Care Possession
Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
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Mind Punishment Vices
[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.
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Conceited English Plain Play
The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.
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Infinite Men Soul
Nor for my peace will I go far, As wanderers do, that still do roam, But make my strengths, such as they are, Here in my bosom, and at home.
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Home Stills Wanderers
For he that once is good, is ever great.
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Good Greatness Once
To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.
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Long Pleasure Treasure

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

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