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If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.

Ben Jonson

Fear to do base, unworthy things is valor; if they be one to us, to suffer them is valor too.
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Courage Suffering Valor
A good dog deserves a good bone.
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Bones Canine Dog
Poets are far rarer birds than kings.
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Bird Kings Poet
All concord’s born of contraries.
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Born Contradiction Contrary
He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
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Honesty Vulgar
Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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Fortune Men
He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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Art Fool Inspirational
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
Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
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Leadership May Men
My thoughts and I were of another world.
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Another World Thoughts
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
Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.
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Heart Hypocrisy Spread
He was not of an age, but for all time!
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Age Time
Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
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Dream Hate Hatred
Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
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Passion Spiritual Understanding
Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
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Imperfect Light Opinion Things

If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.

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