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

Ben Jonson

Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
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Dream Hate Hatred
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
Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
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Beast Fats Mischief
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
The world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
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Conceited Fools Rome Two
I have no urns, no dusty monuments; No broken images of ancestors, Wanting an ear, or nose; no forged tales Of long descents, to boast false honors from.
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Broken Honor Long
Aristotle was the first accurate critic and truest judge nay, the greatest philosopher the world ever had; for he noted the vices of all knowledges, in all creatures, and out of many men’s perfections in a science he formed still one Art.
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Art Judging Men
It is a note Of upstart greatness to observe and watch For these poor trifles, which the noble mind Neglects and scorns.
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Greatness Mind Scorn Watches
Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
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Clothes Countenance Wit
Sweet meat must have sour sauce.
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Meat Swans Sweet
Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.
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Disease Mean Music
I now think, Love is rather deaf, than blind, For else it could not be, That she, Whom I adore so much, should so slight me, And cast my love behind.
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Blind Love Slight Thinking
Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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Force Free Nature Servile
Rich apparel has strange virtues; it makes him that hath it without means esteemed for an excellent wit; he that enjoys it with means puts the world in remembrance of his means.
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Mean Remembrance Rich World
He that is respectless in his courses oft sells his reputation at cheap market.
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Courses Reputation Sells
I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.
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Affected Eloquence Foolish
Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.
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Folly Impudence Rudeness
That I might live alone once with my gold! O, ’tis a sweet companion! kind and true: A man may trust it when his father cheats him, Brother, or friend, or wife. O wondrous pelf! That which makes all men false, is true itself.
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Alone Brother Companions Money Sweet
Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.
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Looks Meaning Weigh
A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.
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Gratitude Men Needs
All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
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Discourse Harsh Speech
A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pestilence, it doth infect the houses of the brain till not a thought, or motion, in the mind, be free from the black poison of suspect.
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Black Brain House
Blueness doth express trueness.
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Color Trueness
Tell troth and shame the devil.
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Devil Shame Truth
He threatens many that hath injured one.
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Crime Injured Threaten
For whose sake, henceforth, all his vows be such, As what he loves may never like too much.
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Love May Sake
In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
BEN JONSON

June Life Perfect Summer

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