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

Ben Jonson

No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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Glasses Men Speech
All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
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Little Wise World
To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
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Communication Motivational Wise
Sweet meat must have sour sauce.
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Meat Swans Sweet
Honor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.
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Hate Honor Men Time
I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
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Father Men Parent
To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.
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Long Pleasure Treasure
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
He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
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Honesty Vulgar
In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
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Absence Hope Love Miss Sweet
The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
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Men Money
Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
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Ambition Needs Slave
For he that once is good, is ever great.
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Good Greatness Once
I have been at my book; and am now past the craggy paths of study, and come to the flowery plains of honour and reputation
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Education Inspirational Past
It is as great a spite to be praised in the wrong place, and by a wrong person, as can be done to a noble nature.
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Done Noble Person Wrong
Men that talk of their own benefits are not believed to talk of them because they have done them, but to have done them because they might talk of them.
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Benefits Done Men
You learn nothing about someone by the way they win the fight, you learn everything about the way they lose and keep coming back.
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Art Fighting Winning
Truth is man’s proper good, and the only immortal thing was given to our mortality to use.
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Men Truth Use
For they have the authority of years, and out of their intermission do win to themselves a kind of grace-like newness. But the eldest of the present, and newest of the past Language, is the best.
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Intermission Newest Present Themselves
How ready is heaven to those that pray!
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Heaven Prayer Praying
All concord’s born of contraries.
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Born Contradiction Contrary
I do honor the very flea of his dog.
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Dog Hero Honor
Hang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.
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Care Cat Sorrow
Man and wife make one fool.
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Marriage Men Wife
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
Poets are far rarer birds than kings.
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Bird Kings Poet
Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.
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Guilt Guilty Shame

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