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Ben Jonson

I have discovered that a famed familiarity in great ones is a note of certain usurpation on the less; for great and popular men feign themselves to be servants to others to make those slaves to them.
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Men Popularity Slave
The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
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Orators Oratory Poet
It is a note Of upstart greatness to observe and watch For these poor trifles, which the noble mind Neglects and scorns.
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Greatness Mind Scorn Watches
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
Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.
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Praise Strikes Strokes
Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.
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Art Men Monsters
You learn nothing about someone by the way they win the fight, you learn everything about the way they lose and keep coming back.
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Art Fighting Winning
Confound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
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Funny Humor Ideas
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
Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star.
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Fall Love Stars
Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.
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Good Man Heaven Men
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
Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
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Disease Talking
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
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
The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.
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Infinite Men Soul

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