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

Ben Jonson

A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
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Eye Government Letter
We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.
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Fashion Quality Women
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
Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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Fortune Men
I do honor the very flea of his dog.
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Dog Hero Honor
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
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
If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
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Illness Neurosis Sick
I am beholden to calumny, that she hath so endeavored to belie me.-It shall make me set a surer guard on myself, and keep a better watch upon my actions.
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Action Calumny Watches
The way to rise is to obey and please.
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Please Success Way
Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
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Book Looks Reader
The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.
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Birthday Praying Return
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
That old bald cheater, Time.
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Bald Cheater Old 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
A good dog deserves a good bone.
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Bones Canine Dog
All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
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Discourse Harsh Speech
He that is respectless in his courses oft sells his reputation at cheap market.
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Courses Reputation Sells
Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast, Still to be powder’d, all perfum’d. Lady, it is to be presumed, Though art’s hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound.
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Art Causes Drest Near Sweet
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
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
Your highest female grace is silence.
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Female Grace Silence
Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
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Ambition Needs Slave
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 was not of an age, but for all time!
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Age Time
Many might go to heaven with half the labour they go to hell, if they would venture their industry the right way.
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Half Heaven Venture
The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
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Acknowledge Ass Devil

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