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

Ben Jonson

Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
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Boys Mean Money
The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
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Men Money
Wine it is the milk of Venus, And the poet’s horse accounted: Ply it and you all are mounted.
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Horse Plies Wine
Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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Force Free Nature Servile
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
The way to rise is to obey and please.
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Please Success Way
There is no bounty to be showed to such As have real goodness: Bounty is A spice of virtue; and what virtuous act Can take effect on them that have no power Of equal habitude to apprehend it?
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Real Spices Virtue
Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.
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Cutting Men Whispering
Freedom doth with degree dispense.
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Degree Dispense Freedom
Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.
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Praise Strikes Strokes
Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
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Beast Flattery Tyrant
Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.
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Folly Impudence Rudeness
A good life is a main argument.
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Argument Good Inspirational Life
Men that talk of their own benefits are not believed to talk of them because they have done them, but to have done them because they might talk of them.
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Benefits Done Men
In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
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June Life Perfect Summer
Where dost thou careless lie, Buried in ease and sloth? Knowledge that sleeps, doth die; And this security, It is the common moth, That eats on wits and arts, and oft destroys them both.
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Art Common Lying Security Sleep

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