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The way to rise is to obey and please.

Ben Jonson

Princes that would their people should do well Must at themselves begin, as at the head; For men, by their example, pattern out Their limitations, and regard of laws: A virtuous court a world to virtue draws.
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Example Law Men Patteren People
Man and wife make one fool.
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Marriage Men Wife
Silence in woman is like speech in man.
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Men Silence Speech
Whosoever loves not picture is injurious to truth, and all the wisdom of poetry. Picture is the invention of heaven, the most ancient and most akin to nature. It is itself a silent work, and always one and the same habit.
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Ancient Heaven Silent
Very few men are wise by their own council, or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself, had a fool for a master.
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Men Teaching Wise
[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.
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Conceited English Plain Play
The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
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Dignity Life Losing
Nothing is more short-lived than pride.
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Live Pride Short
Hell itself must yield to industry.
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Hell Industry Yield
I’ll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news.
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False Giving News True
Drink today, and drown all sorrow; You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow; Best, while you have it, use your breath; There is no drinking after death.
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Drinking Sorrow Use
I do honor the very flea of his dog.
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Dog Hero Honor
Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
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Frail Memories Mind
Peace is never more than one thought away.
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Away Harmony More Peace
Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
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Anarchy Drinking Thinking
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

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