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Many punishments sometimes, and in some cases, as much discredit a prince as many funerals a physician.

Ben Jonson

Princes that would their people should do well Must at themselves begin, as at the head; For men, by their example, pattern out Their limitations, and regard of laws: A virtuous court a world to virtue draws.
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Example Law Men Patteren People
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
There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
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Fear Hell No Prisoner
To struggle when hope is banished! To live when life’s salt is gone! To dwell in a dream that’s vanished- To endure, and go calmly on!
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Dream Life Struggle Vanish
Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.
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Past Winning Years
Blueness doth express trueness.
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Color Trueness
If you succeed not, cast not away the quills yet, nor scratch the wainscot, beat not the poor desk, but bring all to the forge and file again; turn it new.
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Crafts Scratches Succeed
Language most shows a man; speak that I may see thee; it springs out of the most retired and inmost parts of us, and is the image of the parent of it, the mind. No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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Glasses Men Spring
Many punishments sometimes, and in some cases, as much discredit a prince as many funerals a physician.
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Funeral Physicians Punishment
Our whole life is like a play.
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Life Play Whole
Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
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Passion Spiritual Understanding
The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
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Evil Hate Men Oppress
Peace is never more than one thought away.
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Away Harmony More Peace
Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
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Relax Reputation Ruins
Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.
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Art Men Monsters
Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
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Leadership May Men

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