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

Ben Jonson

Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
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Angry Concern Slander
Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.
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Good Man Heaven Men
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
How ready is heaven to those that pray!
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Heaven Prayer Praying
Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
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Frail Memories Mind
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
Ods me I marle what pleasure or felicity they have in taking their roguish tobacco. It is good for nothing but to choke a man, and fill him full of smoke and embers.
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Cigarette Smoke Men Smoking
Now we are all fallen, youth from their fear, And age from that which bred it, good example.
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Age Example Fallen Good Youth
Wine it is the milk of Venus, And the poet’s horse accounted: Ply it and you all are mounted.
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Horse Plies Wine
If you succeed not, cast not away the quills yet, nor scratch the wainscot, beat not the poor desk, but bring all to the forge and file again; turn it new.
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Crafts Scratches Succeed
They, who know no evil, will suspect none.
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Evil Knows Suspect
Confound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
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Funny Humor Ideas
True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
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Friendship Happiness Positive
Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
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Dream Hate Hatred
That old bald cheater, Time.
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Bald Cheater Old Time
Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.
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Affliction Person Prayer Wicked

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