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Whosoever loves not picture is injurious to truth, and all the wisdom of poetry. Picture is the invention of heaven, the most ancient and most akin to nature. It is itself a silent work, and always one and the same habit.

Ben Jonson

Fortune, that favors fools.
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Favors Fool Fortune
True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
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Joy Speak Tongue
Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.
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Guilt Guilty Shame
Blueness doth express trueness.
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Color Trueness
Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
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Beast Flattery Tyrant
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
Peace is never more than one thought away.
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Away Harmony More Peace
The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
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Men Money
The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
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Dignity Life Losing
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
A valiant man Ought not to undergo, or tempt a danger, But worthily, and by selected ways, He undertakes with reason, not by chance. His valor is the salt t’ his other virtues, They’re all unseason’d without it.
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Men Salt Way
There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
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Creeds Doctrine Good Waiting
True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
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Fine Melancholy Perfect Wit
Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
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Disease Talking
Men that talk of their own benefits are not believed to talk of them because they have done them, but to have done them because they might talk of them.
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Benefits Done Men
I have discovered that a famed familiarity in great ones is a note of certain usurpation on the less; for great and popular men feign themselves to be servants to others to make those slaves to them.
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Men Popularity Slave

Whosoever loves not picture is injurious to truth, and all the wisdom of poetry. Picture is the invention of heaven, the most ancient and most akin to nature. It is itself a silent work, and always one and the same habit.

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Whosoever loves not picture is injurious to truth, and all the wisdom of poetry. Picture is the invention of heaven, the most ancient and most akin to nature. It is itself a silent work, and always one and the same habit.

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