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Minds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause: ‘Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause.

Ben Jonson

Nor use too swelling, or ill-sounded words . . . .
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Sounded Swelling Use Words
Very few men are wise by their own council, or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself, had a fool for a master.
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Men Teaching Wise
You learn nothing about someone by the way they win the fight, you learn everything about the way they lose and keep coming back.
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Art Fighting Winning
Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.
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Guilt Guilty Shame
Aristotle was the first accurate critic and truest judge nay, the greatest philosopher the world ever had; for he noted the vices of all knowledges, in all creatures, and out of many men’s perfections in a science he formed still one Art.
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Art Judging Men
Wine it is the milk of Venus, And the poet’s horse accounted: Ply it and you all are mounted.
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Horse Plies Wine
Prevent your day at morning.
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Day Morning Prevent
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
You are not now to think what’s best to do, As in beginnings, but what must be done, Being thus enter’d; and slip no advantage That may secure you. Let them call it mischief; When it is past, and prosper’d , ’twill be virtue.
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Mischief Past Virtue
We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.
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Fashion Quality Women
The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.
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Birthday Praying Return
The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
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Acknowledge Ass Devil
For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries: to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of his own style.
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Exercise Men Writing
Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
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Frail Memories Mind
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
Ambition, like a torrent, ne’er looks back; And is a swelling, and the last affection A high mind can put off; being both a rebel Unto the soul and reason, and enforceth All laws, all conscience, treads upon religion, and offereth violence to nature’s self.
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Ambition Conscience Law Rebel Self Soul

Minds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause: ‘Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause.

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