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

Ben Jonson

A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
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Good Loss Men Rise
Tis no sin love’s fruits to steal; But the sweet thefts to reveal; To be taken, to be seen, These have crimes accounted been.
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Fruit Sweet Taken
Books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction.
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Book Faithful May
One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
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Character Trouble Women
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.
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Act Apes Courage Eye Mirror Time
Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
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Beast Flattery Tyrant
I’ll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news.
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False Giving News True
I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
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Glory Greed Wealth
The burnt child dreads the fire.
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Children Dread Fire
There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
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Creeds Doctrine Good Waiting
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
God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man’s dearer than to himself.
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Men Strange Wrecks
All concord’s born of contraries.
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Born Contradiction Contrary
You are not now to think what’s best to do, As in beginnings, but what must be done, Being thus enter’d; and slip no advantage That may secure you. Let them call it mischief; When it is past, and prosper’d , ’twill be virtue.
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Mischief Past Virtue
A good dog deserves a good bone.
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Bones Canine Dog
Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
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Mind Punishment Vices

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

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