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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

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
Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
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Imperfect Light Opinion Things
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
There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
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Fear Hell No Prisoner
Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
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Mind Punishment Vices
Calumnies are answered best with silence.
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Advice Silence
A good dog deserves a good bone.
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Bones Canine Dog
Money never made any man rich, but his mind. He that can order himself to the law of nature, is not only without the sense, but the fear of poverty.
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Law Men Mind Order Sense
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
Books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction.
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Book Faithful May
He threatens many that hath injured one.
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Crime Injured Threaten
I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.
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Affected Eloquence Foolish
Princes that would their people should do well Must at themselves begin, as at the head; For men, by their example, pattern out Their limitations, and regard of laws: A virtuous court a world to virtue draws.
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Example Law Men Patteren People
Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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Force Free Nature Servile
For they have the authority of years, and out of their intermission do win to themselves a kind of grace-like newness. But the eldest of the present, and newest of the past Language, is the best.
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Intermission Newest Present Themselves
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

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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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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