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

Ben Jonson

The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
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Evil Hate Men Oppress
The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
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Orators Oratory Poet
And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow’d them with her odorous foot.
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Feet Flower Roots
I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never plotted out a line. My answer hath been, would he had blotted a thousand.
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Answer Lines Mention Penend Player Writing
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
Truth is man’s proper good, and the only immortal thing was given to our mortality to use.
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Men Truth Use
Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.
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Folly Impudence Rudeness
The two chief things that give a man reputation in counsel, are the opinion of his honesty, and the opinion of his wisdom; the authority of those two will persuade.
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Honesty Men Persuade Simple Two Wisdom
Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
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Hate Hatred Ignorant
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
Hang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.
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Care Cat Sorrow
Money never made any man rich, but his mind. He that can order himself to the law of nature, is not only without the sense, but the fear of poverty.
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Law Men Mind Order Sense
Fortune, that favors fools.
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Favors Fool Fortune
Chance will not do the work. Chance sends the breeze; But if the pilot slumber at the helm, The very wind that wafts us tow’rds the port May dash us on the shoals. The steersman’s part Is vigilance, or blow it rough or smooth.
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Blow Slumber Wind
Poor worms, they hiss at me, whilst I at home Can be contented to applaud myself, . . . with joy To see how plump my bags are and my barns.
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Home Joy
Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.
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Affliction Person Prayer Wicked

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