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

Ben Jonson

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
If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
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Illness Neurosis Sick
Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
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Mind Punishment Vices
All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
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Little Wise World
Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.
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Art Men Monsters
In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
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Absence Hope Love Miss Sweet
Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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Force Free Nature Servile
There is no bounty to be showed to such As have real goodness: Bounty is A spice of virtue; and what virtuous act Can take effect on them that have no power Of equal habitude to apprehend it?
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Real Spices Virtue
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
Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
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Beast Fats Mischief
To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
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Change Men Want Welcome
It is a note Of upstart greatness to observe and watch For these poor trifles, which the noble mind Neglects and scorns.
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Greatness Mind Scorn Watches
For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries: to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of his own style.
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Exercise Men Writing
True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
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Joy Speak Tongue
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
Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
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Disease Talking

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

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