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Ben Jonson

Men that talk of their own benefits are not believed to talk of them because they have done them, but to have done them because they might talk of them.
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Benefits Done Men
Silence in woman is like speech in man.
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Men Silence Speech
Minds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause: ‘Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause.
BEN JONSON

Applause Crowns Mind Virtue
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.
BEN JONSON

Glasses Men Spring
You learn nothing about someone by the way they win the fight, you learn everything about the way they lose and keep coming back.
BEN JONSON

Art Fighting Winning
Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
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Anxiety Care Possession
How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
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Fortune Practise Sports
Poets are far rarer birds than kings.
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Bird Kings Poet
Success hath made me wanton.
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Hath Made Success Wanton
Peace is never more than one thought away.
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Away Harmony More Peace
I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.
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Affected Eloquence Foolish
When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity.
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Enemy Grief Men
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
Indeed there’s a woundy luck in names.
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Indeed Luck Names Woundy
They, who know no evil, will suspect none.
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Evil Knows Suspect
Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast, Still to be powder’d, all perfum’d. Lady, it is to be presumed, Though art’s hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound.
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Art Causes Drest Near Sweet

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