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Very few men are wise by their own council, or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself, had a fool for a master.

Ben Jonson

There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
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Creeds Doctrine Good Waiting
I have no urns, no dusty monuments; No broken images of ancestors, Wanting an ear, or nose; no forged tales Of long descents, to boast false honors from.
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Broken Honor Long
All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
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Discourse Harsh Speech
We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.
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Fashion Quality Women
I have been at my book; and am now past the craggy paths of study, and come to the flowery plains of honour and reputation
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Education Inspirational Past
I am beholden to calumny, that she hath so endeavored to belie me.-It shall make me set a surer guard on myself, and keep a better watch upon my actions.
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Action Calumny Watches
Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
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Court Deny Mistress
If you succeed not, cast not away the quills yet, nor scratch the wainscot, beat not the poor desk, but bring all to the forge and file again; turn it new.
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Crafts Scratches Succeed
The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
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Dignity Life Losing
He was not of an age, but for all time!
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Age Time
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
Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
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Ambition Inspiration Looks
I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.
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Compassion Justice Weakness
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.
BEN JONSON

Glasses Men Spring
I feel my griefs too, and there scarce is ground Upon my flesh t’inflict another wound. Yet dare I not complain, or wish for death With holy Paul; lest it be thought the breath Of discontent; or that these prayers be For weariness of life, not love of thee.
BEN JONSON

Another Grief Prayer Weariness Wish Wound
No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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Glasses Men Speech

Very few men are wise by their own council, or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself, had a fool for a master.

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