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Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.

Ben Jonson

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
Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.
BEN JONSON

Beer Drink Wells
Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
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Angry Concern Slander
He that is respectless in his courses oft sells his reputation at cheap market.
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Courses Reputation Sells
That I might live alone once with my gold! O, ’tis a sweet companion! kind and true: A man may trust it when his father cheats him, Brother, or friend, or wife. O wondrous pelf! That which makes all men false, is true itself.
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Alone Brother Companions Money Sweet
You are not now to think what’s best to do, As in beginnings, but what must be done, Being thus enter’d; and slip no advantage That may secure you. Let them call it mischief; When it is past, and prosper’d , ’twill be virtue.
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Mischief Past Virtue
Fortune, that favors fools.
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Favors Fool Fortune
Freedom doth with degree dispense.
BEN JONSON

Degree Dispense Freedom
Aristotle was the first accurate critic and truest judge nay, the greatest philosopher the world ever had; for he noted the vices of all knowledges, in all creatures, and out of many men’s perfections in a science he formed still one Art.
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Art Judging Men
Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
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Frail Memories Mind
Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
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Beast Fats Mischief
Hell itself must yield to industry.
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Hell Industry Yield
It is a note Of upstart greatness to observe and watch For these poor trifles, which the noble mind Neglects and scorns.
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Greatness Mind Scorn Watches
God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man’s dearer than to himself.
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Men Strange Wrecks
I do honor the very flea of his dog.
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Dog Hero Honor
Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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Force Free Nature Servile

Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.

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