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A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.

Ben Jonson

Greatness of name, in the father, ofttimes helps not forth, but overwhelms the son: They stand too near one another. The shadow kills the growth.
BEN JONSON

Father Greatness Son
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.
BEN JONSON

Men Popularity Slave
All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
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Discourse Harsh Speech
Follow a shadow, it still flies you, Seem to fly, it will pursue: So court a mistress, she denies you; Let her alone, she will court you. Say are not women truly, then, Styled but the shadows of us men?
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Men Mistress Shadow
The two chief things that give a man reputation in counsel, are the opinion of his honesty, and the opinion of his wisdom; the authority of those two will persuade.
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Honesty Men Persuade Simple Two Wisdom
Blueness doth express trueness.
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Color Trueness
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
The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
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Evil Hate Men Oppress
Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star.
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Fall Love Stars
Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.
BEN JONSON

Disease Mean Music
A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
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Good Loss Men Rise
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
Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
BEN JONSON

Fortune Men
Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!
BEN JONSON

Age Delight Soul Wonder
Your highest female grace is silence.
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Female Grace Silence
Tis no sin love’s fruits to steal; But the sweet thefts to reveal; To be taken, to be seen, These have crimes accounted been.
BEN JONSON

Fruit Sweet Taken

A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.

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