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What excellent fools religion makes of men.

Ben Jonson

My thoughts and I were of another world.
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Another World Thoughts
In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
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June Life Perfect Summer
Your highest female grace is silence.
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Female Grace Silence
He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
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Honesty Vulgar
To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
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Change Men Want Welcome
Greatness of name, in the father, ofttimes helps not forth, but overwhelms the son: They stand too near one another. The shadow kills the growth.
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Father Greatness Son
Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
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Anxiety Care Possession
There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
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Fear Hell No Prisoner
He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.
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Glory Servant Virtue
For they have the authority of years, and out of their intermission do win to themselves a kind of grace-like newness. But the eldest of the present, and newest of the past Language, is the best.
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Intermission Newest Present Themselves
Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
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Leadership May Men
Very few men are wise by their own council, or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself, had a fool for a master.
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Men Teaching Wise
Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
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Mind Punishment Vices
True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
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Joy Speak Tongue
It holds for good polity ever, to have that outwardly in vilest estimation, which inwardly is most dear to us.
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Dear Estimation Hypocrisy
Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
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Ambition Inspiration Looks

What excellent fools religion makes of men.

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