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

Ben Jonson

The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
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Orators Oratory Poet
A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
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Good Loss Men Rise
Man and wife make one fool.
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Marriage Men Wife
Tis no sin love’s fruits to steal; But the sweet thefts to reveal; To be taken, to be seen, These have crimes accounted been.
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Fruit Sweet Taken
No simple word That shall be uttered at our mirthful board, Shall make us sad next morning; or affright The liberty that we’ll enjoy to-night.
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Morning Regret Simple
Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
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Court Deny Mistress
Let argument bear no unmusical sound.
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Argument Bears Sound
The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
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Men Money
Well, I will scourge those apes, And to these courteous eyes oppose a mirror, As large as is the stage whereon we act; Where they shall see the time’s deformity Anatomised in every nerve, and sinew, With constant courage, and contempt of fear.
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Act Apes Courage Eye Mirror Time
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
For they have the authority of years, and out of their intermission do win to themselves a kind of grace-like newness. But the eldest of the present, and newest of the past Language, is the best.
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Intermission Newest Present Themselves
He that is respectless in his courses oft sells his reputation at cheap market.
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Courses Reputation Sells
Many punishments sometimes, and in some cases, as much discredit a prince as many funerals a physician.
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Funeral Physicians Punishment
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
Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
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Mind Punishment Vices
One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
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Character Trouble Women

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