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I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.

Ben Jonson

For he that once is good, is ever great.
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Good Greatness Once
The way to rise is to obey and please.
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Please Success Way
The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
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Acknowledge Ass Devil
Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
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Passion Spiritual Understanding
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
Minds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause: ‘Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause.
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Applause Crowns Mind Virtue
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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Aspersion Choose Good Journey Men
True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
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Fine Melancholy Perfect Wit
He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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Art Fool Inspirational
My thoughts and I were of another world.
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Another World Thoughts
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
Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed That sets his doors wide open to a thief, And shows the felon where his treasure lies?
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Doors Judgment Lying Treasure
The world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
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Conceited Fools Rome Two
Truth is man’s proper good, and the only immortal thing was given to our mortality to use.
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Men Truth Use
Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.
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Heart Hypocrisy Spread
He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
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Honesty Vulgar

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