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Nor shall our cups make any guilty men; But at our parting, we will be, as when We innocently met.

Ben Jonson

A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
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Good Loss Men Rise
Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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Fortune Men
Poets are far rarer birds than kings.
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Bird Kings Poet
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
Freedom doth with degree dispense.
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Degree Dispense Freedom
Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.
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Guilt Guilty Shame
Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
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Passion Spiritual Understanding
Tell troth and shame the devil.
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Devil Shame Truth
The two chief things that give a man reputation in counsel, are the opinion of his honesty, and the opinion of his wisdom; the authority of those two will persuade.
BEN JONSON

Honesty Men Persuade Simple Two Wisdom
It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
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Giving Men Virtue
If you succeed not, cast not away the quills yet, nor scratch the wainscot, beat not the poor desk, but bring all to the forge and file again; turn it new.
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Crafts Scratches Succeed
I know no disease of the soul but ignorance, a pernicious evil, the darkener of man’s life, the disturber of his reason, and common confounder of truth.
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Ignorance Men Science
A lily of a day Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be.
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Die Fall Flower Night Proportion
I have been at my book; and am now past the craggy paths of study, and come to the flowery plains of honour and reputation
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Education Inspirational Past
Truth is man’s proper good, and the only immortal thing was given to our mortality to use.
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Men Truth Use
Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
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Boys Mean Money

Nor shall our cups make any guilty men; But at our parting, we will be, as when We innocently met.

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