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I have discovered that a famed familiarity in great ones is a note of certain usurpation on the less; for great and popular men feign themselves to be servants to others to make those slaves to them.

Ben Jonson

Follow a shadow, it still flies you, Seem to fly, it will pursue: So court a mistress, she denies you; Let her alone, she will court you. Say are not women truly, then, Styled but the shadows of us men?
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Men Mistress Shadow
Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.
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Affliction Person Prayer Wicked
The voice so sweet, the words so fair, As some soft chime had stroked the air; And though the sound had parted thence, Still left an echo in the sense.
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Air Echoes Parted Sweet Thence
No simple word That shall be uttered at our mirthful board, Shall make us sad next morning; or affright The liberty that we’ll enjoy to-night.
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Morning Regret Simple
Whosoever loves not picture is injurious to truth, and all the wisdom of poetry. Picture is the invention of heaven, the most ancient and most akin to nature. It is itself a silent work, and always one and the same habit.
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Ancient Heaven Silent
Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.
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Art Men Monsters
All concord’s born of contraries.
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Born Contradiction Contrary
Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
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Mind Punishment Vices
It is the highest of earthly honors to be descended from the great and good. They alone cry out against a noble ancestry who have none of their own.
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Ancestry Honor Noble
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
My thoughts and I were of another world.
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Another World Thoughts
Success hath made me wanton.
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Hath Made Success Wanton
I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
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Father Men Parent
Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.
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Heart Hypocrisy Spread
O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
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Forget Sun Time
How near to good is what is fair!
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Fairs Good Goodness Near

I have discovered that a famed familiarity in great ones is a note of certain usurpation on the less; for great and popular men feign themselves to be servants to others to make those slaves to them.

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I have discovered that a famed familiarity in great ones is a note of certain usurpation on the less; for great and popular men feign themselves to be servants to others to make those slaves to them.

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