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Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.

Ben Jonson

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
True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
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Joy Speak Tongue
There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
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Creeds Doctrine Good Waiting
He threatens many that hath injured one.
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Crime Injured Threaten
As it is a great point of art, when our matter requires it, to enlarge and veer out all sail, so to take it in and contract it is of no less praise when the argument doth ask it.
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Art Ask Matter Praise Style
The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.
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Infinite Men Soul
The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
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Orators Oratory Poet
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
Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
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Death Good Man Men
Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.
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Looks Meaning Weigh
The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
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Dignity Life Losing
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.
BEN JONSON

Ancestry Honor Noble
There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
BEN JONSON

Fear Hell No Prisoner
Queen and huntress, chaste and fair Now the sun is laid to sleep, Seated in thy silver chair, State in wonted manner keep: Hesperus entreats thy light Goddess, excellently bright.
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Chair Light Queens Seated Sleep
To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.
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Long Pleasure Treasure
The way to rise is to obey and please.
BEN JONSON

Please Success Way

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