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He that is respectless in his courses oft sells his reputation at cheap market.

Ben Jonson

To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
BEN JONSON

Communication Motivational Wise
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
We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.
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Fashion Quality Women
True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
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Friendship Happiness Positive
He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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Art Fool Inspirational
Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.
BEN JONSON

Praise Strikes Strokes
No man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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Easily May Men Taught Wise
It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.
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Art Giving Lying
Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
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Art Enemy Ignorance
Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.
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Cutting Men Whispering
The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.
BEN JONSON

Birthday Praying Return
O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
BEN JONSON

Forget Sun Time
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
If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
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Illness Neurosis Sick
Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
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Ambition Inspiration Looks
To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
BEN JONSON

Change Men Want Welcome

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