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It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.

Ben Jonson

If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.
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Art Being Poverty True
The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
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Acknowledge Ass Devil
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
Books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction.
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Book Faithful May
Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.
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Disease Mean Music
I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.
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Compassion Justice Weakness
Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star.
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Fall Love Stars
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.
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Glasses Men Spring
Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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Force Free Nature Servile
Our whole life is like a play.
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Life Play Whole
Nor use too swelling, or ill-sounded words . . . .
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Sounded Swelling Use Words
Blueness doth express trueness.
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Color Trueness
Tell troth and shame the devil.
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Devil Shame Truth
I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
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Glory Greed Wealth
Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
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Ambition Needs Slave
Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.
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Envy Honor Two

It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.

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