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Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.

Ben Jonson

Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
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Disease Talking
No man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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Easily May Men Taught Wise
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
Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
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Beast Fats Mischief
Many might go to heaven with half the labour they go to hell, if they would venture their industry the right way.
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Half Heaven Venture
I know no disease of the soul but ignorance, a pernicious evil, the darkener of man’s life, the disturber of his reason, and common confounder of truth.
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Ignorance Men Science
Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
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Frail Memories Mind
All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
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Little Wise World
… the best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle.
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Anchors Needs Sea
Indeed there’s a woundy luck in names.
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Indeed Luck Names Woundy
Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
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Relax Reputation Ruins
Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.
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Past Winning Years
Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.
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Praise Strikes Strokes
The world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
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Conceited Fools Rome Two
Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star.
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Fall Love Stars
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
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.
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Another Grief Prayer Weariness Wish Wound
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
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
A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
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Good Loss Men Rise
Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
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Anxiety Care Possession
The way to rise is to obey and please.
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Please Success Way
Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.
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Heart Hypocrisy Spread
O! How vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do.
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Fear Men Passion
Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
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Ambition Needs Slave
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
You are not now to think what’s best to do, As in beginnings, but what must be done, Being thus enter’d; and slip no advantage That may secure you. Let them call it mischief; When it is past, and prosper’d , ’twill be virtue.
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Mischief Past Virtue

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