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True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.

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
Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
BEN JONSON

Boys Mean Money
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
The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.
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Infinite Men Soul
Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.
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Good Time Illustrate Men Stars
Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
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Mind Punishment Vices
Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
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Ambition Inspiration Looks
Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.
BEN JONSON

Past Winning Years
Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
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Leadership May Men
The burnt child dreads the fire.
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Children Dread Fire
Whosoever loves not picture is injurious to truth, and all the wisdom of poetry. Picture is the invention of heaven, the most ancient and most akin to nature. It is itself a silent work, and always one and the same habit.
BEN JONSON

Ancient Heaven Silent
Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
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Faces Home House
Ods me I marle what pleasure or felicity they have in taking their roguish tobacco. It is good for nothing but to choke a man, and fill him full of smoke and embers.
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Cigarette Smoke Men Smoking
He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
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Honesty Vulgar
Books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction.
BEN JONSON

Book Faithful May
… the best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle.
BEN JONSON

Anchors Needs Sea

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