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

Ben Jonson

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
It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
BEN JONSON

Giving Men Virtue
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
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
I know no disease of the soul but ignorance, a pernicious evil, the darkener of man’s life, the disturber of his reason, and common confounder of truth.
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Ignorance Men Science
It is the highest of earthly honors to be descended from the great and good. They alone cry out against a noble ancestry who have none of their own.
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Ancestry Honor Noble
It is a note Of upstart greatness to observe and watch For these poor trifles, which the noble mind Neglects and scorns.
BEN JONSON

Greatness Mind Scorn Watches
You learn nothing about someone by the way they win the fight, you learn everything about the way they lose and keep coming back.
BEN JONSON

Art Fighting Winning
Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star.
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Fall Love Stars
The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
BEN JONSON

Men Money
Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.
BEN JONSON

Heart Hypocrisy Spread
Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.
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Cutting Men Whispering
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?
BEN JONSON

Doors Judgment Lying Treasure
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
If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.
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Art Being Poverty True
Your highest female grace is silence.
BEN JONSON

Female Grace Silence

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