He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.

Ben Jonson

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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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Popularity
I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.

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I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.
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Minds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause: ‘Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause.

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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
There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
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No Prisoner
To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.
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Long
Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.

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Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.
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Beer Drink Wells
Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!

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Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!
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May
Sweet Swan of Avon! What a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear.

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Sweet Swan of Avon! What a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear.
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Swans Sweet
I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.

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I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
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Parent
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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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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Slight
All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.

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All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
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Tell troth and shame the devil.

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Tell troth and shame the devil.
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We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.

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We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.
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I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never plotted out a line. My answer hath been, would he had blotted a thousand.
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For whose sake, henceforth, all his vows be such, As what he loves may never like too much.
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May Sake
Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.

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Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
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Boys Mean

He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.

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