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A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.

Ben Jonson

Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.
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Art Men Monsters
Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.
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Heart Hypocrisy Spread
A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.
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Gratitude Men Needs
The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
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Acknowledge Ass Devil
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.
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Men Popularity Slave
In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
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Absence Hope Love Miss Sweet
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
A valiant man Ought not to undergo, or tempt a danger, But worthily, and by selected ways, He undertakes with reason, not by chance. His valor is the salt t’ his other virtues, They’re all unseason’d without it.
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Men Salt Way
Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
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Leadership May Men
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
They, who know no evil, will suspect none.
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Evil Knows Suspect
And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow’d them with her odorous foot.
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Feet Flower Roots
If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
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Illness Neurosis Sick
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
Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
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Beast Fats Mischief
Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!
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May Poetry War

A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.

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