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How near to good is what is fair!

Ben Jonson

Men that talk of their own benefits are not believed to talk of them because they have done them, but to have done them because they might talk of them.
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Benefits Done Men
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
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
Blueness doth express trueness.
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Color Trueness
Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.
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Heart Hypocrisy Spread
I’ll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news.
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False Giving News True
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
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.
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Another Grief Prayer Weariness Wish Wound
Let argument bear no unmusical sound.
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Argument Bears Sound
The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
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Evil Hate Men Oppress
True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
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Joy Speak Tongue
I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.
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Affected Eloquence Foolish
Drink today, and drown all sorrow; You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow; Best, while you have it, use your breath; There is no drinking after death.
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Drinking Sorrow Use
When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity.
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Enemy Grief Men
Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
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Court Deny Mistress

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