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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

Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
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Hate Hatred Ignorant
Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
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Passion Spiritual Understanding
Our whole life is like a play.
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Life Play Whole
Guilt’s a terrible thing.
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Guilt Terrible Things
A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
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Good Loss Men Rise
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
Confound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
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Funny Humor Ideas
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
Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
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Anarchy Drinking Thinking
Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
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Relax Reputation Ruins
Tis no sin love’s fruits to steal; But the sweet thefts to reveal; To be taken, to be seen, These have crimes accounted been.
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Fruit Sweet Taken
Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star.
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Fall Love Stars
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
Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
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Beast Flattery Tyrant
Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
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Book Looks Reader
Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I’ll not look for wine.
BEN JONSON

Food Romantic Wine

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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