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

Ben Jonson

It is as great a spite to be praised in the wrong place, and by a wrong person, as can be done to a noble nature.
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Done Noble Person Wrong
O! How vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do.
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Fear Men Passion
Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
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Beast Fats Mischief
Confound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
BEN JONSON

Funny Humor Ideas
Princes that would their people should do well Must at themselves begin, as at the head; For men, by their example, pattern out Their limitations, and regard of laws: A virtuous court a world to virtue draws.
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Example Law Men Patteren People
Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
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Imperfect Light Opinion Things
Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
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Frail Memories Mind
Greatness of name, in the father, ofttimes helps not forth, but overwhelms the son: They stand too near one another. The shadow kills the growth.
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Father Greatness Son
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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Law Men Mind Order Sense
I have no urns, no dusty monuments; No broken images of ancestors, Wanting an ear, or nose; no forged tales Of long descents, to boast false honors from.
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Broken Honor Long
Poor worms, they hiss at me, whilst I at home Can be contented to applaud myself, . . . with joy To see how plump my bags are and my barns.
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Home Joy
Hell itself must yield to industry.
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Hell Industry Yield
Well, I will scourge those apes, And to these courteous eyes oppose a mirror, As large as is the stage whereon we act; Where they shall see the time’s deformity Anatomised in every nerve, and sinew, With constant courage, and contempt of fear.
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Act Apes Courage Eye Mirror Time
Nothing is more short-lived than pride.
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Live Pride Short
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 thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.
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Gratitude Men Needs

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