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Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.

Ben Jonson

Men that talk of their own benefits are not believed to talk of them because they have done them, but to have done them because they might talk of them.
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Benefits Done Men
It is the highest of earthly honors to be descended from the great and good. They alone cry out against a noble ancestry who have none of their own.
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Ancestry Honor Noble
True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
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Joy Speak Tongue
There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
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Fear Hell No Prisoner
It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.
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Art Giving Lying
Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.
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Guilt Guilty Shame
Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I’ll not look for wine.
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Food Romantic Wine
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
Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace Robes loosely flowing, hair as free Such sweet neglect more taketh me Than all the adulteries of art: They strike mine eyes, but not my heart.
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Art Eye Neglect Simplicity Sweet
All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
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Little Wise World
Freedom doth with degree dispense.
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Degree Dispense Freedom
The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
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Dignity Life Losing
Man and wife make one fool.
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Marriage Men Wife
Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.
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Envy Honor Two
They, who know no evil, will suspect none.
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Evil Knows Suspect
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

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