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Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink

Ben Jonson

Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.
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Disease Mean Music
Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.
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Envy Honor Two
There is no bounty to be showed to such As have real goodness: Bounty is A spice of virtue; and what virtuous act Can take effect on them that have no power Of equal habitude to apprehend it?
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Real Spices Virtue
Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star.
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Fall Love Stars
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
And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow’d them with her odorous foot.
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Feet Flower Roots
He that is respectless in his courses oft sells his reputation at cheap market.
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Courses Reputation Sells
Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
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Beast Flattery Tyrant
Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
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Disease Talking
A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.
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Gratitude Men Needs
They, who know no evil, will suspect none.
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Evil Knows Suspect
Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.
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Looks Meaning Weigh
Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.
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Praise Strikes Strokes
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
He was not of an age, but for all time!
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Age Time
I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
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Father Men Parent
Let argument bear no unmusical sound.
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Argument Bears Sound
That I might live alone once with my gold! O, ’tis a sweet companion! kind and true: A man may trust it when his father cheats him, Brother, or friend, or wife. O wondrous pelf! That which makes all men false, is true itself.
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Alone Brother Companions Money Sweet
Fortune, that favors fools.
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Favors Fool Fortune
Rich apparel has strange virtues; it makes him that hath it without means esteemed for an excellent wit; he that enjoys it with means puts the world in remembrance of his means.
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Mean Remembrance Rich World
Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.
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Cutting Men Whispering
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
In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
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June Life Perfect Summer
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
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
Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.
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Guilt Guilty Shame
Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
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Lines Sweat Writing

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