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He threatens many that hath injured one.

Ben Jonson

I have discovered that a famed familiarity in great ones is a note of certain usurpation on the less; for great and popular men feign themselves to be servants to others to make those slaves to them.
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Men Popularity Slave
Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
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Anarchy Drinking Thinking
Princes that would their people should do well Must at themselves begin, as at the head; For men, by their example, pattern out Their limitations, and regard of laws: A virtuous court a world to virtue draws.
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Example Law Men Patteren People
A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
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Good Loss Men Rise
Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
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Disease Talking
Whosoever loves not picture is injurious to truth, and all the wisdom of poetry. Picture is the invention of heaven, the most ancient and most akin to nature. It is itself a silent work, and always one and the same habit.
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Ancient Heaven Silent
Confound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
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Funny Humor Ideas
Ods me I marle what pleasure or felicity they have in taking their roguish tobacco. It is good for nothing but to choke a man, and fill him full of smoke and embers.
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Cigarette Smoke Men Smoking
The two chief things that give a man reputation in counsel, are the opinion of his honesty, and the opinion of his wisdom; the authority of those two will persuade.
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Honesty Men Persuade Simple Two Wisdom
A good life is a main argument.
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Argument Good Inspirational Life
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
Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.
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Affliction Person Prayer Wicked
All concord’s born of contraries.
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Born Contradiction Contrary
Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace Robes loosely flowing, hair as free Such sweet neglect more taketh me Than all the adulteries of art: They strike mine eyes, but not my heart.
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Art Eye Neglect Simplicity Sweet
My thoughts and I were of another world.
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Another World Thoughts
Minds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause: ‘Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause.
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Applause Crowns Mind Virtue

He threatens many that hath injured one.

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