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A good man will avoid the spot of any sin. The very aspersion is grievous, which makes him choose his way in his life, as he would in his journey.

Ben Jonson

Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
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Ambition Needs Slave
Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.
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Envy Honor Two
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
Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!
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Age Delight Soul Wonder
True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
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Joy Speak Tongue
Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.
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Guilt Guilty Shame
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
Rich apparel has strange virtues; it makes him that hath it without means esteemed for an excellent wit; he that enjoys it with means puts the world in remembrance of his means.
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Mean Remembrance Rich World
A good life is a main argument.
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Argument Good Inspirational Life
Ready writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing.
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Good Ready Writing
Many punishments sometimes, and in some cases, as much discredit a prince as many funerals a physician.
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Funeral Physicians Punishment
I have discovered that a famed familiarity in great ones is a note of certain usurpation on the less; for great and popular men feign themselves to be servants to others to make those slaves to them.
BEN JONSON

Men Popularity Slave
Indeed there’s a woundy luck in names.
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Indeed Luck Names Woundy
There is no bounty to be showed to such As have real goodness: Bounty is A spice of virtue; and what virtuous act Can take effect on them that have no power Of equal habitude to apprehend it?
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Real Spices Virtue
A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pestilence, it doth infect the houses of the brain till not a thought, or motion, in the mind, be free from the black poison of suspect.
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Black Brain House
All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
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Discourse Harsh Speech

A good man will avoid the spot of any sin. The very aspersion is grievous, which makes him choose his way in his life, as he would in his journey.

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