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Blueness doth express trueness.

Ben Jonson

Money never made any man rich, but his mind. He that can order himself to the law of nature, is not only without the sense, but the fear of poverty.
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Law Men Mind Order Sense
How near to good is what is fair!
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Fairs Good Goodness Near
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
Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
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Frail Memories Mind
A good dog deserves a good bone.
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Bones Canine Dog
No simple word That shall be uttered at our mirthful board, Shall make us sad next morning; or affright The liberty that we’ll enjoy to-night.
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Morning Regret Simple
Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I’ll not look for wine.
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Food Romantic Wine
Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.
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Envy Honor Two
If you succeed not, cast not away the quills yet, nor scratch the wainscot, beat not the poor desk, but bring all to the forge and file again; turn it new.
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Crafts Scratches Succeed
To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
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Change Men Want Welcome
How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
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Fortune Practise Sports
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
Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
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Beast Flattery Tyrant
Freedom doth with degree dispense.
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Degree Dispense Freedom
Tis no sin love’s fruits to steal; But the sweet thefts to reveal; To be taken, to be seen, These have crimes accounted been.
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Fruit Sweet Taken
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

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