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Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.

Ben Jonson

Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
BEN JONSON

Anxiety Care Possession
Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed That sets his doors wide open to a thief, And shows the felon where his treasure lies?
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Doors Judgment Lying Treasure
Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
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Beast Fats Mischief
Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
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Boys Mean Money
Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
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Lines Sweat Writing
I have no urns, no dusty monuments; No broken images of ancestors, Wanting an ear, or nose; no forged tales Of long descents, to boast false honors from.
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Broken Honor Long
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
Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.
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Affliction Person Prayer Wicked
A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
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Eye Government Letter
A good king is a public servant.
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Good King Kings Servant
It strikes! one, two, Three, four, five, six. Enough, enough, dear watch, Thy pulse hath beat enough. Now sleep and rest; Would thou could’st make the time to do so too; I’ll wind thee up no more.
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Enough Pulse Sleep Time Wind
For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries: to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of his own style.
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Exercise Men Writing
Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
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Angry Concern Slander
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
He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.
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Glory Servant Virtue
Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
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Ambition Inspiration Looks
Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
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Court Deny Mistress
I have discovered that a famed familiarity in great ones is a note of certain usurpation on the less; for great and popular men feign themselves to be servants to others to make those slaves to them.
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Men Popularity Slave
Nor for my peace will I go far, As wanderers do, that still do roam, But make my strengths, such as they are, Here in my bosom, and at home.
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Home Stills Wanderers
You are not now to think what’s best to do, As in beginnings, but what must be done, Being thus enter’d; and slip no advantage That may secure you. Let them call it mischief; When it is past, and prosper’d , ’twill be virtue.
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Mischief Past Virtue
Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!
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May Poetry War
Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.
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Past Winning Years
To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.
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Long Pleasure Treasure
Aristotle was the first accurate critic and truest judge nay, the greatest philosopher the world ever had; for he noted the vices of all knowledges, in all creatures, and out of many men’s perfections in a science he formed still one Art.
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Art Judging Men
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
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
I now think, Love is rather deaf, than blind, For else it could not be, That she, Whom I adore so much, should so slight me, And cast my love behind.
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Blind Love Slight Thinking

Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.

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