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Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.

Ben Jonson

There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
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Creeds Doctrine Good Waiting
Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
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Lines Sweat Writing
Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.
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Affliction Person Prayer Wicked
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
And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow’d them with her odorous foot.
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Feet Flower Roots
In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
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Absence Hope Love Miss Sweet
Silence in woman is like speech in man.
BEN JONSON

Men Silence Speech
Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.
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Looks Meaning Weigh
It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
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Giving Men Virtue
I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
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Glory Greed Wealth
No man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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Easily May Men Taught Wise
Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
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Ambition Needs Slave
True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
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Friendship Happiness Positive
Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!
BEN JONSON

May Poetry War
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
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

Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.

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