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O! How vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do.

Ben Jonson

Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.
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Good Man Heaven Men
Poor worms, they hiss at me, whilst I at home Can be contented to applaud myself, . . . with joy To see how plump my bags are and my barns.
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Home Joy
The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
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Dignity Life Losing
Let argument bear no unmusical sound.
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Argument Bears Sound
All concord’s born of contraries.
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Born Contradiction Contrary
A good king is a public servant.
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Good King Kings Servant
Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.
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Good Time Illustrate Men Stars
Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
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Imperfect Light Opinion Things
Peace is never more than one thought away.
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Away Harmony More Peace
Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
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Clothes Countenance Wit
Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
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Lines Sweat Writing
Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
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Dream Hate Hatred
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
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
Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!
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Age Delight Soul Wonder
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

O! How vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do.

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