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Tell troth and shame the devil.

Ben Jonson

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
He that is respectless in his courses oft sells his reputation at cheap market.
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Courses Reputation Sells
Confound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
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Funny Humor Ideas
He was not of an age, but for all time!
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Age Time
A good life is a main argument.
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Argument Good Inspirational Life
I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
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Father Men Parent
Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.
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Good Time Illustrate Men Stars
Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
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Disease Talking
God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man’s dearer than to himself.
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Men Strange Wrecks
I do honor the very flea of his dog.
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Dog Hero Honor
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
The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.
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Infinite Men Soul
In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
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June Life Perfect Summer
There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
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Fear Hell No Prisoner
Money never made any man rich, but his mind. He that can order himself to the law of nature, is not only without the sense, but the fear of poverty.
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Law Men Mind Order Sense
Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
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Passion Spiritual Understanding

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