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All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.

Ben Jonson

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
Queen and huntress, chaste and fair Now the sun is laid to sleep, Seated in thy silver chair, State in wonted manner keep: Hesperus entreats thy light Goddess, excellently bright.
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Chair Light Queens Seated Sleep
Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
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Passion Spiritual Understanding
A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pestilence, it doth infect the houses of the brain till not a thought, or motion, in the mind, be free from the black poison of suspect.
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Black Brain House
I do honor the very flea of his dog.
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Dog Hero Honor
I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.
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Affected Eloquence Foolish
How ready is heaven to those that pray!
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Heaven Prayer Praying
Drink today, and drown all sorrow; You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow; Best, while you have it, use your breath; There is no drinking after death.
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Drinking Sorrow Use
Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.
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Good Man Heaven Men
The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
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Acknowledge Ass Devil
Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
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Book Looks Reader
Man and wife make one fool.
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Marriage Men Wife
All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
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Little Wise World
All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
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Discourse Harsh Speech
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
Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
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Dream Hate Hatred

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