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I am beholden to calumny, that she hath so endeavored to belie me.-It shall make me set a surer guard on myself, and keep a better watch upon my actions.

Ben Jonson

I feel my griefs too, and there scarce is ground Upon my flesh t’inflict another wound. Yet dare I not complain, or wish for death With holy Paul; lest it be thought the breath Of discontent; or that these prayers be For weariness of life, not love of thee.
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Another Grief Prayer Weariness Wish Wound
Poets are far rarer birds than kings.
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Bird Kings Poet
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
Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
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Ambition Needs Slave
Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
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Angry Concern Slander
There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
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Fear Hell No Prisoner
Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.
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Praise Strikes Strokes
Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
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Book Looks Reader
Ambition, like a torrent, ne’er looks back; And is a swelling, and the last affection A high mind can put off; being both a rebel Unto the soul and reason, and enforceth All laws, all conscience, treads upon religion, and offereth violence to nature’s self.
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Ambition Conscience Law Rebel Self Soul
For whose sake, henceforth, all his vows be such, As what he loves may never like too much.
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Love May Sake
If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.
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Art Being Poverty True
Very few men are wise by their own council, or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself, had a fool for a master.
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Men Teaching Wise
There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
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Creeds Doctrine Good Waiting
Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.
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Disease Mean Music
The two chief things that give a man reputation in counsel, are the opinion of his honesty, and the opinion of his wisdom; the authority of those two will persuade.
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Honesty Men Persuade Simple Two Wisdom
That old bald cheater, Time.
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Bald Cheater Old Time

I am beholden to calumny, that she hath so endeavored to belie me.-It shall make me set a surer guard on myself, and keep a better watch upon my actions.

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