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Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.

Ben Jonson

Truth is man’s proper good, and the only immortal thing was given to our mortality to use.
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Men Truth Use
How ready is heaven to those that pray!
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Heaven Prayer Praying
… the best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle.
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Anchors Needs Sea
Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
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Imperfect Light Opinion Things
Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.
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Affliction Person Prayer Wicked
It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.
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Art Giving Lying
All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
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Discourse Harsh Speech
Where dost thou careless lie, Buried in ease and sloth? Knowledge that sleeps, doth die; And this security, It is the common moth, That eats on wits and arts, and oft destroys them both.
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Art Common Lying Security Sleep
I’ll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news.
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False Giving News True
God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man’s dearer than to himself.
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Men Strange Wrecks
Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.
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Past Winning Years
Poor worms, they hiss at me, whilst I at home Can be contented to applaud myself, . . . with joy To see how plump my bags are and my barns.
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Home Joy
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
And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow’d them with her odorous foot.
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Feet Flower Roots
The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
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Orators Oratory Poet
Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!
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May Poetry War

Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.

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