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True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.

Ben Jonson

And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow’d them with her odorous foot.
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Feet Flower Roots
Guilt’s a terrible thing.
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Guilt Terrible Things
Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.
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Beer Drink Wells
Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star.
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Fall Love Stars
I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
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Glory Greed Wealth
That I might live alone once with my gold! O, ’tis a sweet companion! kind and true: A man may trust it when his father cheats him, Brother, or friend, or wife. O wondrous pelf! That which makes all men false, is true itself.
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Alone Brother Companions Money Sweet
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
How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
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Fortune Practise Sports
Honor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.
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Hate Honor Men Time
Peace is never more than one thought away.
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Away Harmony More Peace
Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.
BEN JONSON

Past Winning Years
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
To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
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Change Men Want Welcome
Ambition, like a torrent, ne’er looks back; And is a swelling, and the last affection A high mind can put off; being both a rebel Unto the soul and reason, and enforceth All laws, all conscience, treads upon religion, and offereth violence to nature’s self.
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Ambition Conscience Law Rebel Self Soul
No simple word That shall be uttered at our mirthful board, Shall make us sad next morning; or affright The liberty that we’ll enjoy to-night.
BEN JONSON

Morning Regret Simple
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

True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.

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