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

Ben Jonson

As it is a great point of art, when our matter requires it, to enlarge and veer out all sail, so to take it in and contract it is of no less praise when the argument doth ask it.
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Art Ask Matter Praise Style
The way to rise is to obey and please.
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Please Success Way
Sweet Swan of Avon! What a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear.
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Sight Swans Sweet
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
Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
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Mind Punishment Vices
It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
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Giving Men Virtue
Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
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Beast Flattery Tyrant
Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast, Still to be powder’d, all perfum’d. Lady, it is to be presumed, Though art’s hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound.
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Art Causes Drest Near Sweet
The voice so sweet, the words so fair, As some soft chime had stroked the air; And though the sound had parted thence, Still left an echo in the sense.
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Air Echoes Parted Sweet Thence
A good man will avoid the spot of any sin. The very aspersion is grievous, which makes him choose his way in his life, as he would in his journey.
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Aspersion Choose Good Journey Men
The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.
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Infinite Men Soul
Honor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.
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Hate Honor Men Time
Ods me I marle what pleasure or felicity they have in taking their roguish tobacco. It is good for nothing but to choke a man, and fill him full of smoke and embers.
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Cigarette Smoke Men Smoking
Wine it is the milk of Venus, And the poet’s horse accounted: Ply it and you all are mounted.
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Horse Plies Wine
The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
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Evil Hate Men Oppress
Man and wife make one fool.
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Marriage Men Wife

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