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Ben Jonson

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
Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star.
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Fall Love Stars
It is as great a spite to be praised in the wrong place, and by a wrong person, as can be done to a noble nature.
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Done Noble Person Wrong
For he that once is good, is ever great.
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Good Greatness Once
True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
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Friendship Happiness Positive
Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.
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Art Men Monsters
Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
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Anarchy Drinking Thinking
For whose sake, henceforth, all his vows be such, As what he loves may never like too much.
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Love May Sake
Forbear, you things That stand upon the pinnacles of state, To boast your slippery height! when you do fall, You dash yourselves in pieces, ne’er to rise: And he that lends you pity, is not wise.
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Boast Fall Pieces Wise
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
All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
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Little Wise World
That old bald cheater, Time.
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Bald Cheater Old Time
What excellent fools religion makes of men.
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Men Religion Religious
Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
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Ambition Inspiration Looks
The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
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Men Money
Poets are far rarer birds than kings.
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Bird Kings Poet

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