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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

For whose sake, henceforth, all his vows be such, As what he loves may never like too much.
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Love May Sake
Man and wife make one fool.
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Marriage Men Wife
They, who know no evil, will suspect none.
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Evil Knows Suspect
It holds for good polity ever, to have that outwardly in vilest estimation, which inwardly is most dear to us.
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Dear Estimation Hypocrisy
I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.
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Affected Eloquence Foolish
I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
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Glory Greed Wealth
The world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
BEN JONSON

Conceited Fools Rome Two
No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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Glasses Men Speech
Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
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Anarchy Drinking Thinking
To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
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Change Men Want Welcome
Hell itself must yield to industry.
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Hell Industry Yield
All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
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Little Wise World
The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
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Evil Hate Men Oppress
Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.
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Heart Hypocrisy Spread
Very few men are wise by their own council, or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself, had a fool for a master.
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Men Teaching Wise
Prevent your day at morning.
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Day Morning Prevent
Fortune, that favors fools.
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Favors Fool Fortune
Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.
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Affliction Person Prayer Wicked
As it is a great point of art, when our matter requires it, to enlarge and veer out all sail, so to take it in and contract it is of no less praise when the argument doth ask it.
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Art Ask Matter Praise Style
There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
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Fear Hell No Prisoner
Follow a shadow, it still flies you, Seem to fly, it will pursue: So court a mistress, she denies you; Let her alone, she will court you. Say are not women truly, then, Styled but the shadows of us men?
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Men Mistress Shadow
If you succeed not, cast not away the quills yet, nor scratch the wainscot, beat not the poor desk, but bring all to the forge and file again; turn it new.
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Crafts Scratches Succeed
Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
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Beast Flattery Tyrant
Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
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Disease Talking
Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
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Ambition Inspiration Looks
Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
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Death Good Man Men
Let argument bear no unmusical sound.
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Argument Bears Sound

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

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