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A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.

Ben Jonson

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
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
Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace Robes loosely flowing, hair as free Such sweet neglect more taketh me Than all the adulteries of art: They strike mine eyes, but not my heart.
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Art Eye Neglect Simplicity Sweet
Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.
BEN JONSON

Guilt Guilty Shame
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
It is the highest of earthly honors to be descended from the great and good. They alone cry out against a noble ancestry who have none of their own.
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Ancestry Honor Noble
It is less dishonor to hear imperfectly than to speak imperfectly. The ears are excused; the understanding is not.
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Ears Speak Understanding
Ready writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing.
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Good Ready Writing
True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
BEN JONSON

Joy Speak Tongue
Peace is never more than one thought away.
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Away Harmony More Peace
If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
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Illness Neurosis Sick
To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
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Communication Motivational Wise
Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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Fortune Men
You are not now to think what’s best to do, As in beginnings, but what must be done, Being thus enter’d; and slip no advantage That may secure you. Let them call it mischief; When it is past, and prosper’d , ’twill be virtue.
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Mischief Past Virtue
Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.
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Disease Mean Music
A good king is a public servant.
BEN JONSON

Good King Kings Servant

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