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Hang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.

Ben Jonson

Ods me I marle what pleasure or felicity they have in taking their roguish tobacco. It is good for nothing but to choke a man, and fill him full of smoke and embers.
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Cigarette Smoke Men Smoking
He threatens many that hath injured one.
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Crime Injured Threaten
Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
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Anarchy Drinking Thinking
Tis no sin love’s fruits to steal; But the sweet thefts to reveal; To be taken, to be seen, These have crimes accounted been.
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Fruit Sweet Taken
… the best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle.
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Anchors Needs Sea
Honor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.
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Hate Honor Men Time
The burnt child dreads the fire.
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Children Dread Fire
My thoughts and I were of another world.
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Another World Thoughts
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
Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
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Dream Hate Hatred
A lily of a day Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be.
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Die Fall Flower Night Proportion
A good king is a public servant.
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Good King Kings Servant
It is the highest of earthly honors to be descended from the great and good. They alone cry out against a noble ancestry who have none of their own.
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Ancestry Honor Noble
Poets are far rarer birds than kings.
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Bird Kings Poet
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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Compassion Justice Weakness
I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
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Glory Greed Wealth

Hang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.

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