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Ben Jonson

If men will impartially, and not asquint, look toward the offices and function of a poet, they will easily conclude to themselves the impossibility of any man’s being a good poet without first being a good man.
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Good Man Men Office
Ready writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing.
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Good Ready Writing
Success hath made me wanton.
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Hath Made Success Wanton
Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
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Leadership May Men
One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
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Character Trouble Women
Guilt’s a terrible thing.
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Guilt Terrible Things
A good life is a main argument.
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Argument Good Inspirational Life
There is no bounty to be showed to such As have real goodness: Bounty is A spice of virtue; and what virtuous act Can take effect on them that have no power Of equal habitude to apprehend it?
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Real Spices Virtue
The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
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Evil Hate Men Oppress
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
Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.
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Past Winning Years
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
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
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.
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Father Greatness Son
O! How vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do.
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Fear Men Passion
Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
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Court Deny Mistress

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