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True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.

Ben Jonson

Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
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Beast Fats Mischief
Many might go to heaven with half the labour they go to hell, if they would venture their industry the right way.
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Half Heaven Venture
I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
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Father Men Parent
Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
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Leadership May Men
Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.
BEN JONSON

Beer Drink Wells
The world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
BEN JONSON

Conceited Fools Rome Two
Wine it is the milk of Venus, And the poet’s horse accounted: Ply it and you all are mounted.
BEN JONSON

Horse Plies Wine
Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
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Anarchy Drinking Thinking
Indeed there’s a woundy luck in names.
BEN JONSON

Indeed Luck Names Woundy
Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
BEN JONSON

Hate Hatred Ignorant
Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
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Dream Hate Hatred
You learn nothing about someone by the way they win the fight, you learn everything about the way they lose and keep coming back.
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Art Fighting Winning
Sweet meat must have sour sauce.
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Meat Swans Sweet
Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.
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Folly Impudence Rudeness
The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
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Men Money
Force works on servile natures, not the free.
BEN JONSON

Force Free Nature Servile

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