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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?

Ben Jonson

No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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Glasses Men Speech
I am beholden to calumny, that she hath so endeavored to belie me.-It shall make me set a surer guard on myself, and keep a better watch upon my actions.
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Action Calumny Watches
Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
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Anarchy Drinking Thinking
I do honor the very flea of his dog.
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Dog Hero Honor
Tell troth and shame the devil.
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Devil Shame Truth
My thoughts and I were of another world.
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Another World Thoughts
All concord’s born of contraries.
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Born Contradiction Contrary
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.
BEN JONSON

Example Law Men Patteren People
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
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
True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
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Joy Speak Tongue
O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
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Forget Sun Time
For they have the authority of years, and out of their intermission do win to themselves a kind of grace-like newness. But the eldest of the present, and newest of the past Language, is the best.
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Intermission Newest Present Themselves
The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
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Evil Hate Men Oppress
True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
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Fine Melancholy Perfect Wit
Success hath made me wanton.
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Hath Made Success Wanton

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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