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Sweet meat must have sour sauce.

Ben Jonson

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
Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.
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Folly Impudence Rudeness
As it is a great point of art, when our matter requires it, to enlarge and veer out all sail, so to take it in and contract it is of no less praise when the argument doth ask it.
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Art Ask Matter Praise Style
The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
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Acknowledge Ass Devil
There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
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Fear Hell No Prisoner
… the best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle.
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Anchors Needs Sea
In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
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Absence Hope Love Miss Sweet
I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.
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Affected Eloquence Foolish
A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
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Good Loss Men Rise
It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.
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Art Giving Lying
Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
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Imperfect Light Opinion Things
True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
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Joy Speak Tongue
Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star.
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Fall Love Stars
In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
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June Life Perfect Summer
Sweet Swan of Avon! What a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear.
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Sight Swans Sweet
Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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Fortune Men

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