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

Ben Jonson

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Good Man

It strikes! one, two, Three, four, five, six. Enough, enough, dear watch, Thy pulse hath beat enough. Now sleep and rest; Would thou could’st make the time to do so too; I’ll wind thee up no more.
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Pulse
Hell itself must yield to industry.

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Hell itself must yield to industry.
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Industry Yield
Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.

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Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.
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Mean
Freedom doth with degree dispense.

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Freedom doth with degree dispense.
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Dispense
Men that talk of their own benefits are not believed to talk of them because they have done them, but to have done them because they might talk of them.

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Men that talk of their own benefits are not believed to talk of them because they have done them, but to have done them because they might talk of them.
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Benefits
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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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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Persuade Simple Two
Many punishments sometimes, and in some cases, as much discredit a prince as many funerals a physician.
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Funeral Physicians
Your highest female grace is silence.

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Your highest female grace is silence.
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Grace
Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.
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Wicked
Nor for my peace will I go far, As wanderers do, that still do roam, But make my strengths, such as they are, Here in my bosom, and at home.
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Stills Wanderers
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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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 Themselves
A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pestilence, it doth infect the houses of the brain till not a thought, or motion, in the mind, be free from the black poison of suspect.
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The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.
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Infinite
He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.

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He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
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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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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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Eye Sweet
Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
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Countenance

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

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