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The burnt child dreads the fire.

Ben Jonson

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
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
The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.
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Men Smoking
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
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
Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.
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Guilt Guilty Shame
Fear to do base, unworthy things is valor; if they be one to us, to suffer them is valor too.
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Courage Suffering Valor
Blueness doth express trueness.
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Color Trueness
Whosoever loves not picture is injurious to truth, and all the wisdom of poetry. Picture is the invention of heaven, the most ancient and most akin to nature. It is itself a silent work, and always one and the same habit.
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Ancient Heaven Silent
Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
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Angry Concern Slander
Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
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Boys Mean Money
God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man’s dearer than to himself.
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Men Strange Wrecks
Sweet meat must have sour sauce.
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Meat Swans Sweet
Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.
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Praise Strikes Strokes
What excellent fools religion makes of men.
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Men Religion Religious
Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
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Anxiety Care Possession

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