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

Ben Jonson

Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.
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Heart Hypocrisy Spread
Drink today, and drown all sorrow; You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow; Best, while you have it, use your breath; There is no drinking after death.
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Drinking Sorrow Use
He was not of an age, but for all time!
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Age Time
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
In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
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June Life Perfect Summer
Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
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Faces Home House
Calumnies are answered best with silence.
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Advice Silence
Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.
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Disease Mean Music
Sweet Swan of Avon! What a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear.
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Sight Swans Sweet
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
Prevent your day at morning.
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Day Morning Prevent
Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
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Ambition Needs Slave
The two chief things that give a man reputation in counsel, are the opinion of his honesty, and the opinion of his wisdom; the authority of those two will persuade.
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Honesty Men Persuade Simple Two Wisdom
Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!
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Age Delight Soul Wonder
Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
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Death Good Man Men
True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
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Fine Melancholy Perfect Wit
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
Truth is man’s proper good, and the only immortal thing was given to our mortality to use.
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Men Truth Use
Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
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Frail Memories Mind
I have been at my book; and am now past the craggy paths of study, and come to the flowery plains of honour and reputation
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Education Inspirational Past
Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.
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Guilt Guilty Shame
If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.
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Art Being Poverty True
Peace is never more than one thought away.
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Away Harmony More Peace
He threatens many that hath injured one.
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Crime Injured Threaten
Hang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.
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Care Cat Sorrow
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
My thoughts and I were of another world.
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Another World Thoughts

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

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