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

Ben Jonson

It holds for good polity ever, to have that outwardly in vilest estimation, which inwardly is most dear to us.
BEN JONSON

Dear Estimation Hypocrisy
Fortune, that favors fools.
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Favors Fool Fortune
To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.
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Long Pleasure Treasure
Nothing is more short-lived than pride.
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Live Pride Short
Well, I will scourge those apes, And to these courteous eyes oppose a mirror, As large as is the stage whereon we act; Where they shall see the time’s deformity Anatomised in every nerve, and sinew, With constant courage, and contempt of fear.
BEN JONSON

Act Apes Courage Eye Mirror Time
… the best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle.
BEN JONSON

Anchors Needs Sea
The world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
BEN JONSON

Conceited Fools Rome Two
Hang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.
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Care Cat Sorrow
All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
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Little Wise World
Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.
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Beer Drink Wells
A valiant man Ought not to undergo, or tempt a danger, But worthily, and by selected ways, He undertakes with reason, not by chance. His valor is the salt t’ his other virtues, They’re all unseason’d without it.
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Men Salt Way
A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
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Good Loss Men Rise
Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.
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Folly Impudence Rudeness
Tell troth and shame the devil.
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Devil Shame Truth
I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never plotted out a line. My answer hath been, would he had blotted a thousand.
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Answer Lines Mention Penend Player Writing
The way to rise is to obey and please.
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Please Success Way

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

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