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He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

Ben Jonson

To struggle when hope is banished! To live when life’s salt is gone! To dwell in a dream that’s vanished- To endure, and go calmly on!
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Dream Life Struggle Vanish
The world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
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Conceited Fools Rome Two
O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
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Forget Sun Time
For he that once is good, is ever great.
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Good Greatness Once
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
To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.
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Long Pleasure Treasure
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
Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.
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Affliction Person Prayer Wicked
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
Men that talk of their own benefits are not believed to talk of them because they have done them, but to have done them because they might talk of them.
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Benefits Done Men
Language most shows a man; speak that I may see thee; it springs out of the most retired and inmost parts of us, and is the image of the parent of it, the mind. No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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Glasses Men Spring
That I might live alone once with my gold! O, ’tis a sweet companion! kind and true: A man may trust it when his father cheats him, Brother, or friend, or wife. O wondrous pelf! That which makes all men false, is true itself.
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Alone Brother Companions Money Sweet
To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
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Change Men Want Welcome
Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!
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May Poetry War
Rich apparel has strange virtues; it makes him that hath it without means esteemed for an excellent wit; he that enjoys it with means puts the world in remembrance of his means.
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Mean Remembrance Rich World
Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
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Mind Punishment Vices

He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

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