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To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.

Ben Jonson

Well, I will scourge those apes, And to these courteous eyes oppose a mirror, As large as is the stage whereon we act; Where they shall see the time’s deformity Anatomised in every nerve, and sinew, With constant courage, and contempt of fear.
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Act Apes Courage Eye Mirror Time
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
He threatens many that hath injured one.
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Crime Injured Threaten
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
Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
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Clothes Countenance Wit
Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.
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Envy Honor Two
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
Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.
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Cutting Men Whispering
… the best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle.
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Anchors Needs Sea
Your highest female grace is silence.
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Female Grace Silence
That I might live alone once with my gold! O, ’tis a sweet companion! kind and true: A man may trust it when his father cheats him, Brother, or friend, or wife. O wondrous pelf! That which makes all men false, is true itself.
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Alone Brother Companions Money Sweet
Hell itself must yield to industry.
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Hell Industry Yield
Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
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Beast Fats Mischief
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
Wine it is the milk of Venus, And the poet’s horse accounted: Ply it and you all are mounted.
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Horse Plies Wine
When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity.
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Enemy Grief Men

To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.

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