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Truth is man’s proper good, and the only immortal thing was given to our mortality to use.

Ben Jonson

How near to good is what is fair!
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Fairs Good Goodness Near
God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man’s dearer than to himself.
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Men Strange Wrecks
To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.
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Long Pleasure Treasure
He threatens many that hath injured one.
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Crime Injured Threaten
To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
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Communication Motivational Wise
All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
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Little Wise World
True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
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Fine Melancholy Perfect Wit
The way to rise is to obey and please.
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Please Success Way
He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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Art Fool Inspirational
And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow’d them with her odorous foot.
BEN JONSON

Feet Flower Roots
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
Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
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Lines Sweat Writing
Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.
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Good Man Heaven Men
Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
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Clothes Countenance Wit
The burnt child dreads the fire.
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Children Dread Fire
He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.
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Glory Servant Virtue

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