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Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.

Ben Jonson

I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.
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Affected Eloquence Foolish
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
Hang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.
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Care Cat Sorrow
If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
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Illness Neurosis Sick
Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast, Still to be powder’d, all perfum’d. Lady, it is to be presumed, Though art’s hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound.
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Art Causes Drest Near Sweet
How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
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Fortune Practise Sports
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
To struggle when hope is banished! To live when life’s salt is gone! To dwell in a dream that’s vanished- To endure, and go calmly on!
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Dream Life Struggle Vanish
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
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
The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
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Evil Hate Men Oppress
Confound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
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Funny Humor Ideas
Sweet meat must have sour sauce.
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Meat Swans Sweet
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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Compassion Justice Weakness
It is a note Of upstart greatness to observe and watch For these poor trifles, which the noble mind Neglects and scorns.
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Greatness Mind Scorn Watches
The burnt child dreads the fire.
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Children Dread Fire

Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.

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