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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

Ben Jonson

Tell troth and shame the devil.
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Devil Shame Truth
He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.
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Glory Servant Virtue
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.
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Food Romantic Wine
Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.
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Guilt Guilty Shame
It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.
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Art Giving Lying
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
Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
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Court Deny Mistress
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
Fear to do base, unworthy things is valor; if they be one to us, to suffer them is valor too.
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Courage Suffering Valor
Your highest female grace is silence.
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Female Grace Silence
How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
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Fortune Practise Sports
Freedom doth with degree dispense.
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Degree Dispense Freedom
Queen and huntress, chaste and fair Now the sun is laid to sleep, Seated in thy silver chair, State in wonted manner keep: Hesperus entreats thy light Goddess, excellently bright.
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Chair Light Queens Seated Sleep
Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
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Disease Talking
A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pestilence, it doth infect the houses of the brain till not a thought, or motion, in the mind, be free from the black poison of suspect.
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Black Brain House
Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.
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Affliction Person Prayer Wicked

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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