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The way to rise is to obey and please.

Ben Jonson

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
It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.
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Art Giving Lying
Greatness of name, in the father, ofttimes helps not forth, but overwhelms the son: They stand too near one another. The shadow kills the growth.
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Father Greatness Son
True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
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Joy Speak Tongue
Where dost thou careless lie, Buried in ease and sloth? Knowledge that sleeps, doth die; And this security, It is the common moth, That eats on wits and arts, and oft destroys them both.
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Art Common Lying Security Sleep
The world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
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Conceited Fools Rome Two
Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
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Anarchy Drinking Thinking
Truth is man’s proper good, and the only immortal thing was given to our mortality to use.
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Men Truth Use
Nor shall our cups make any guilty men; But at our parting, we will be, as when We innocently met.
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Cup Drinking Men
Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
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Imperfect Light Opinion Things
How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
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Fortune Practise Sports
Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
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Passion Spiritual Understanding
Let argument bear no unmusical sound.
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Argument Bears Sound
Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
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Frail Memories Mind
All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
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Discourse Harsh Speech
If you succeed not, cast not away the quills yet, nor scratch the wainscot, beat not the poor desk, but bring all to the forge and file again; turn it new.
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Crafts Scratches Succeed

The way to rise is to obey and please.

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