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Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.

Ben Jonson

There is no bounty to be showed to such As have real goodness: Bounty is A spice of virtue; and what virtuous act Can take effect on them that have no power Of equal habitude to apprehend it?
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Real Spices Virtue
And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow’d them with her odorous foot.
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Feet Flower Roots
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
Many punishments sometimes, and in some cases, as much discredit a prince as many funerals a physician.
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Funeral Physicians Punishment
Prevent your day at morning.
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Day Morning Prevent
For whose sake, henceforth, all his vows be such, As what he loves may never like too much.
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Love May Sake
The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
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Evil Hate Men Oppress
God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man’s dearer than to himself.
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Men Strange Wrecks
You are not now to think what’s best to do, As in beginnings, but what must be done, Being thus enter’d; and slip no advantage That may secure you. Let them call it mischief; When it is past, and prosper’d , ’twill be virtue.
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Mischief Past Virtue
How ready is heaven to those that pray!
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Heaven Prayer Praying
Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.
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Disease Mean Music
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
Our whole life is like a play.
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Life Play Whole
Now we are all fallen, youth from their fear, And age from that which bred it, good example.
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Age Example Fallen Good Youth
A good life is a main argument.
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Argument Good Inspirational Life
I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
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Glory Greed Wealth

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