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I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.

Ben Jonson

Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
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Court Deny Mistress
Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
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Disease Talking
It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
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Giving Men Virtue
Forbear, you things That stand upon the pinnacles of state, To boast your slippery height! when you do fall, You dash yourselves in pieces, ne’er to rise: And he that lends you pity, is not wise.
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Boast Fall Pieces Wise
There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
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Fear Hell No Prisoner
Wine it is the milk of Venus, And the poet’s horse accounted: Ply it and you all are mounted.
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Horse Plies Wine
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
Blueness doth express trueness.
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Color Trueness
Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
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Clothes Countenance Wit
It holds for good polity ever, to have that outwardly in vilest estimation, which inwardly is most dear to us.
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Dear Estimation Hypocrisy
Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
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Boys Mean Money
A good king is a public servant.
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Good King Kings Servant
… the best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle.
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Anchors Needs Sea
I do honor the very flea of his dog.
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Dog Hero Honor
Where dost thou careless lie, Buried in ease and sloth? Knowledge that sleeps, doth die; And this security, It is the common moth, That eats on wits and arts, and oft destroys them both.
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Art Common Lying Security Sleep
He that is respectless in his courses oft sells his reputation at cheap market.
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Courses Reputation Sells

I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.

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