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Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.

Ben Jonson

The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.
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Men Smoking
In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
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June Life Perfect Summer
The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.
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Infinite Men Soul
Hell itself must yield to industry.
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Hell Industry Yield
Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
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Frail Memories Mind
… the best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle.
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Anchors Needs Sea
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 Done Men
Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
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Beast Flattery Tyrant
Sweet Swan of Avon! What a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear.
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Sight Swans Sweet
For he that once is good, is ever great.
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Good Greatness Once
Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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Fortune Men
We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.
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Fashion Quality Women
Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
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Passion Spiritual Understanding
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
Princes that would their people should do well Must at themselves begin, as at the head; For men, by their example, pattern out Their limitations, and regard of laws: A virtuous court a world to virtue draws.
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Example Law Men Patteren People
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

Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.

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