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Hang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.

Ben Jonson

Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
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Faces Home House
Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
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Disease Talking
Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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Fortune Men
He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
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Honesty Vulgar
For he that once is good, is ever great.
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Good Greatness Once
The way to rise is to obey and please.
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Please Success Way
All concord’s born of contraries.
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Born Contradiction Contrary
A good king is a public servant.
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Good King Kings Servant
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
One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
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Character Trouble Women
The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
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Orators Oratory Poet
I have been at my book; and am now past the craggy paths of study, and come to the flowery plains of honour and reputation
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Education Inspirational Past
Now we are all fallen, youth from their fear, And age from that which bred it, good example.
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Age Example Fallen Good Youth
Blueness doth express trueness.
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Color Trueness
Chance will not do the work. Chance sends the breeze; But if the pilot slumber at the helm, The very wind that wafts us tow’rds the port May dash us on the shoals. The steersman’s part Is vigilance, or blow it rough or smooth.
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Blow Slumber Wind
What excellent fools religion makes of men.
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Men Religion Religious

Hang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.

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