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

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
Peace is never more than one thought away.
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Away Harmony More Peace
Ready writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing.
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Good Ready Writing
If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
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Illness Neurosis Sick
True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
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Fine Melancholy Perfect Wit
True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
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Friendship Happiness Positive
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
If men will impartially, and not asquint, look toward the offices and function of a poet, they will easily conclude to themselves the impossibility of any man’s being a good poet without first being a good man.
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Good Man Men Office
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
I know no disease of the soul but ignorance, a pernicious evil, the darkener of man’s life, the disturber of his reason, and common confounder of truth.
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Ignorance Men Science
Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
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Beast Fats Mischief
Confound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
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Funny Humor Ideas
Prevent your day at morning.
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Day Morning Prevent
It is less dishonor to hear imperfectly than to speak imperfectly. The ears are excused; the understanding is not.
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Ears Speak Understanding
Wine it is the milk of Venus, And the poet’s horse accounted: Ply it and you all are mounted.
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Horse Plies Wine
To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
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Change Men Want Welcome

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