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Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.

Ben Jonson

Rich apparel has strange virtues; it makes him that hath it without means esteemed for an excellent wit; he that enjoys it with means puts the world in remembrance of his means.
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Mean Remembrance Rich World
The world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
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Conceited Fools Rome Two
Minds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause: ‘Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause.
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Applause Crowns Mind Virtue
True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
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Joy Speak Tongue
Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed That sets his doors wide open to a thief, And shows the felon where his treasure lies?
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Doors Judgment Lying Treasure
Prevent your day at morning.
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Day Morning Prevent
To struggle when hope is banished! To live when life’s salt is gone! To dwell in a dream that’s vanished- To endure, and go calmly on!
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Dream Life Struggle Vanish
A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
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Good Loss Men Rise
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
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
A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
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Eye Government Letter
Calumnies are answered best with silence.
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Advice Silence
There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
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Creeds Doctrine Good Waiting
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
Peace is never more than one thought away.
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Away Harmony More Peace
There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
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Fear Hell No Prisoner

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