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It is a note Of upstart greatness to observe and watch For these poor trifles, which the noble mind Neglects and scorns.

Ben Jonson

Man and wife make one fool.
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Marriage Men Wife
I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
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Father Men Parent
No simple word That shall be uttered at our mirthful board, Shall make us sad next morning; or affright The liberty that we’ll enjoy to-night.
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Morning Regret Simple
[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.
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Conceited English Plain Play
Guilt’s a terrible thing.
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Guilt Terrible Things
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
All concord’s born of contraries.
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Born Contradiction Contrary
To struggle when hope is banished! To live when life’s salt is gone! To dwell in a dream that’s vanished- To endure, and go calmly on!
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Dream Life Struggle Vanish
If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
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Illness Neurosis Sick
There is no bounty to be showed to such As have real goodness: Bounty is A spice of virtue; and what virtuous act Can take effect on them that have no power Of equal habitude to apprehend it?
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Real Spices Virtue
It is as great a spite to be praised in the wrong place, and by a wrong person, as can be done to a noble nature.
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Done Noble Person Wrong
You learn nothing about someone by the way they win the fight, you learn everything about the way they lose and keep coming back.
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Art Fighting Winning
Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
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Angry Concern Slander
Fear to do base, unworthy things is valor; if they be one to us, to suffer them is valor too.
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Courage Suffering Valor
A good life is a main argument.
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Argument Good Inspirational Life
Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
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Imperfect Light Opinion Things

It is a note Of upstart greatness to observe and watch For these poor trifles, which the noble mind Neglects and scorns.

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