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It is as great a spite to be praised in the wrong place, and by a wrong person, as can be done to a noble nature.

Ben Jonson

Fear to do base, unworthy things is valor; if they be one to us, to suffer them is valor too.
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Courage Suffering Valor
Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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Force Free Nature Servile
Now we are all fallen, youth from their fear, And age from that which bred it, good example.
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Age Example Fallen Good Youth
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
Aristotle was the first accurate critic and truest judge nay, the greatest philosopher the world ever had; for he noted the vices of all knowledges, in all creatures, and out of many men’s perfections in a science he formed still one Art.
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Art Judging Men
No simple word That shall be uttered at our mirthful board, Shall make us sad next morning; or affright The liberty that we’ll enjoy to-night.
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Morning Regret Simple
He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
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Honesty Vulgar
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
Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
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Clothes Countenance Wit
The way to rise is to obey and please.
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Please Success Way
Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!
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May Poetry War
Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!
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Age Delight Soul Wonder
Language most shows a man; speak that I may see thee; it springs out of the most retired and inmost parts of us, and is the image of the parent of it, the mind. No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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Glasses Men Spring
Silence in woman is like speech in man.
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Men Silence Speech
I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
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Glory Greed Wealth
It is less dishonor to hear imperfectly than to speak imperfectly. The ears are excused; the understanding is not.
BEN JONSON

Ears Speak Understanding

It is as great a spite to be praised in the wrong place, and by a wrong person, as can be done to a noble nature.

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