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Indeed there’s a woundy luck in names.

Ben Jonson

When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity.
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Enemy Grief Men
I am beholden to calumny, that she hath so endeavored to belie me.-It shall make me set a surer guard on myself, and keep a better watch upon my actions.
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Action Calumny Watches
Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.
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Looks Meaning Weigh
Ambition, like a torrent, ne’er looks back; And is a swelling, and the last affection A high mind can put off; being both a rebel Unto the soul and reason, and enforceth All laws, all conscience, treads upon religion, and offereth violence to nature’s self.
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Ambition Conscience Law Rebel Self Soul
All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
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Little Wise World
The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.
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Men Smoking
There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
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Fear Hell No Prisoner
Tell troth and shame the devil.
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Devil Shame Truth
Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
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Passion Spiritual Understanding
For whose sake, henceforth, all his vows be such, As what he loves may never like too much.
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Love May Sake
… the best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle.
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Anchors Needs Sea
Where dost thou careless lie, Buried in ease and sloth? Knowledge that sleeps, doth die; And this security, It is the common moth, That eats on wits and arts, and oft destroys them both.
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Art Common Lying Security Sleep
A good king is a public servant.
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Good King Kings Servant
Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!
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Age Delight Soul Wonder
Freedom doth with degree dispense.
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Degree Dispense Freedom
To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.
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Long Pleasure Treasure

Indeed there’s a woundy luck in names.

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