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Guilt’s a terrible thing.

Ben Jonson

Money never made any man rich, but his mind. He that can order himself to the law of nature, is not only without the sense, but the fear of poverty.
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Law Men Mind Order Sense
Hell itself must yield to industry.
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Hell Industry Yield
Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.
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Good Man Heaven Men
The way to rise is to obey and please.
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Please Success Way
Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
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Book Looks Reader
I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.
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Compassion Justice Weakness
Chance will not do the work. Chance sends the breeze; But if the pilot slumber at the helm, The very wind that wafts us tow’rds the port May dash us on the shoals. The steersman’s part Is vigilance, or blow it rough or smooth.
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Blow Slumber Wind
True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
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Joy Speak Tongue
A valiant man Ought not to undergo, or tempt a danger, But worthily, and by selected ways, He undertakes with reason, not by chance. His valor is the salt t’ his other virtues, They’re all unseason’d without it.
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Men Salt Way
As it is a great point of art, when our matter requires it, to enlarge and veer out all sail, so to take it in and contract it is of no less praise when the argument doth ask it.
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Art Ask Matter Praise Style
Blueness doth express trueness.
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Color Trueness
Tis no sin love’s fruits to steal; But the sweet thefts to reveal; To be taken, to be seen, These have crimes accounted been.
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Fruit Sweet Taken
A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pestilence, it doth infect the houses of the brain till not a thought, or motion, in the mind, be free from the black poison of suspect.
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Black Brain House
How ready is heaven to those that pray!
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Heaven Prayer Praying
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
Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!
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Age Delight Soul Wonder

Guilt’s a terrible thing.

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