Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.
BEN JONSONIf men will impartially, and not asquint, look toward the offices and function of a poet, they will easily conclude to themselves the impossibility of any man’s being a good poet without first being a good man.
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The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
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He that is respectless in his courses oft sells his reputation at cheap market.
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It is the highest of earthly honors to be descended from the great and good. They alone cry out against a noble ancestry who have none of their own.
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I do honor the very flea of his dog.
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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.
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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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The world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
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And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow’d them with her odorous foot.
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You learn nothing about someone by the way they win the fight, you learn everything about the way they lose and keep coming back.
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A good poet’s made as well as born.
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True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
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Many might go to heaven with half the labour they go to hell, if they would venture their industry the right way.
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I now think, Love is rather deaf, than blind, For else it could not be, That she, Whom I adore so much, should so slight me, And cast my love behind.
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To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
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True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
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