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God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man’s dearer than to himself.

Ben Jonson

He that is respectless in his courses oft sells his reputation at cheap market.
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Courses Reputation Sells
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
Peace is never more than one thought away.
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Away Harmony More Peace
As it is a great point of art, when our matter requires it, to enlarge and veer out all sail, so to take it in and contract it is of no less praise when the argument doth ask it.
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Art Ask Matter Praise Style
The burnt child dreads the fire.
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Children Dread Fire
All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
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Discourse Harsh Speech
How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
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Fortune Practise Sports
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
He was not of an age, but for all time!
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Age Time
Greatness of name, in the father, ofttimes helps not forth, but overwhelms the son: They stand too near one another. The shadow kills the growth.
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Father Greatness Son
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
Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
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Mind Punishment Vices
No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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Glasses Men Speech
Silence in woman is like speech in man.
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Men Silence Speech
Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.
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Art Men Monsters
I feel my griefs too, and there scarce is ground Upon my flesh t’inflict another wound. Yet dare I not complain, or wish for death With holy Paul; lest it be thought the breath Of discontent; or that these prayers be For weariness of life, not love of thee.
BEN JONSON

Another Grief Prayer Weariness Wish Wound

God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man’s dearer than to himself.

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