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

Ben Jonson

I have discovered that a famed familiarity in great ones is a note of certain usurpation on the less; for great and popular men feign themselves to be servants to others to make those slaves to them.
BEN JONSON

Men Popularity Slave
For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries: to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of his own style.
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Exercise Men Writing
All concord’s born of contraries.
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Born Contradiction Contrary
For he that once is good, is ever great.
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Good Greatness Once
He threatens many that hath injured one.
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Crime Injured Threaten
In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
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June Life Perfect Summer
To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
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Change Men Want Welcome
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
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
Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
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Ambition Needs Slave
All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
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Little Wise World
I do honor the very flea of his dog.
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Dog Hero Honor
They, who know no evil, will suspect none.
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Evil Knows Suspect
Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
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Leadership May Men
I’ll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news.
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False Giving News True
Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.
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Cutting Men Whispering

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

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