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

Ben Jonson

Sweet Swan of Avon! What a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear.
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Sight Swans Sweet
Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.
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Good Time Illustrate Men Stars
Nothing is more short-lived than pride.
BEN JONSON

Live Pride Short
God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man’s dearer than to himself.
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Men Strange Wrecks
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
Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
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Ambition Needs Slave
I’ll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news.
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False Giving News True
Prevent your day at morning.
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Day Morning Prevent
Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed That sets his doors wide open to a thief, And shows the felon where his treasure lies?
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Doors Judgment Lying Treasure
That old bald cheater, Time.
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Bald Cheater Old Time
Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!
BEN JONSON

May Poetry War
Man and wife make one fool.
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Marriage Men Wife
Greatness of name, in the father, ofttimes helps not forth, but overwhelms the son: They stand too near one another. The shadow kills the growth.
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Father Greatness Son
O! How vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do.
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Fear Men Passion
Very few men are wise by their own council, or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself, had a fool for a master.
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Men Teaching Wise
I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
BEN JONSON

Father Men Parent

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