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A good man will avoid the spot of any sin. The very aspersion is grievous, which makes him choose his way in his life, as he would in his journey.

Ben Jonson

Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star.
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Fall Love Stars
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
The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.
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Infinite Men Soul
To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.
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Long Pleasure Treasure
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
He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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Art Fool Inspirational
A good man will avoid the spot of any sin. The very aspersion is grievous, which makes him choose his way in his life, as he would in his journey.
BEN JONSON

Aspersion Choose Good Journey Men
No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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Glasses Men Speech
Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
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Mind Punishment Vices
The way to rise is to obey and please.
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Please Success Way
Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
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Frail Memories Mind
There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
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Fear Hell No Prisoner
Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast, Still to be powder’d, all perfum’d. Lady, it is to be presumed, Though art’s hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound.
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Art Causes Drest Near Sweet
For whose sake, henceforth, all his vows be such, As what he loves may never like too much.
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Love May Sake
Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
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Ambition Needs Slave
If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
BEN JONSON

Illness Neurosis Sick

A good man will avoid the spot of any sin. The very aspersion is grievous, which makes him choose his way in his life, as he would in his journey.

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