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Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.

Ben Jonson

O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
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Forget Sun Time
Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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Fortune Men
Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.
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Art Men Monsters
To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.
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Long Pleasure Treasure
Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
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Disease Talking
Many punishments sometimes, and in some cases, as much discredit a prince as many funerals a physician.
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Funeral Physicians Punishment
I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
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Father Men Parent
For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries: to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of his own style.
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Exercise Men Writing
Man and wife make one fool.
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Marriage Men Wife
The burnt child dreads the fire.
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Children Dread Fire
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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Men Popularity Slave
The two chief things that give a man reputation in counsel, are the opinion of his honesty, and the opinion of his wisdom; the authority of those two will persuade.
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Honesty Men Persuade Simple Two Wisdom
How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
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Fortune Practise Sports
Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!
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May Poetry War
How near to good is what is fair!
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Fairs Good Goodness Near
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

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