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How ready is heaven to those that pray!

Ben Jonson

There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
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Fear Hell No Prisoner
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
A good dog deserves a good bone.
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Bones Canine Dog
How ready is heaven to those that pray!
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Heaven Prayer Praying
No man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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Easily May Men Taught Wise
Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
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Death Good Man Men
Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
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Beast Fats Mischief
Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.
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Guilt Guilty Shame
Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
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Frail Memories Mind
I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.
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Affected Eloquence Foolish
Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
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Art Enemy Ignorance
I’ll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news.
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False Giving News True
A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
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Good Loss Men Rise
Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.
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Heart Hypocrisy Spread
He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.
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Glory Servant Virtue
Success hath made me wanton.
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Hath Made Success Wanton

How ready is heaven to those that pray!

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