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A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
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Good Loss Men Rise
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
I now think, Love is rather deaf, than blind, For else it could not be, That she, Whom I adore so much, should so slight me, And cast my love behind.
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Blind Love Slight Thinking
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
That I might live alone once with my gold! O, ’tis a sweet companion! kind and true: A man may trust it when his father cheats him, Brother, or friend, or wife. O wondrous pelf! That which makes all men false, is true itself.
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Alone Brother Companions Money Sweet
A good king is a public servant.
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Good King Kings Servant
The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
BEN JONSON

Evil Hate Men Oppress
Prevent your day at morning.
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Day Morning Prevent
All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
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Discourse Harsh Speech
All concord’s born of contraries.
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Born Contradiction Contrary
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 play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.
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Conceited English Plain Play
A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
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Eye Government Letter
A valiant man Ought not to undergo, or tempt a danger, But worthily, and by selected ways, He undertakes with reason, not by chance. His valor is the salt t’ his other virtues, They’re all unseason’d without it.
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Men Salt Way
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
The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
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Men Money

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