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Fear to do base, unworthy things is valor; if they be one to us, to suffer them is valor too.

Ben Jonson

Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
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Frail Memories Mind
Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
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Leadership May Men
And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow’d them with her odorous foot.
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Feet Flower Roots
Man and wife make one fool.
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Marriage Men Wife
Many punishments sometimes, and in some cases, as much discredit a prince as many funerals a physician.
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Funeral Physicians Punishment
To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
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Change Men Want Welcome
Language most shows a man; speak that I may see thee; it springs out of the most retired and inmost parts of us, and is the image of the parent of it, the mind. No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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Glasses Men Spring
There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
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Fear Hell No Prisoner
Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
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Death Good Man Men
True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
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Friendship Happiness Positive
I have no urns, no dusty monuments; No broken images of ancestors, Wanting an ear, or nose; no forged tales Of long descents, to boast false honors from.
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Broken Honor Long
O! How vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do.
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Fear Men Passion
Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.
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Envy Honor Two
The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
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Acknowledge Ass Devil
He that is respectless in his courses oft sells his reputation at cheap market.
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Courses Reputation Sells
Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!
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Age Delight Soul Wonder

Fear to do base, unworthy things is valor; if they be one to us, to suffer them is valor too.

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