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A good life is a main argument.

Ben Jonson

Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
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Relax Reputation Ruins
True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
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Friendship Happiness Positive
And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow’d them with her odorous foot.
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Feet Flower Roots
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
The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
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Men Money
Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
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Disease Talking
I now think, Love is rather deaf, than blind, For else it could not be, That she, Whom I adore so much, should so slight me, And cast my love behind.
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Blind Love Slight Thinking
God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man’s dearer than to himself.
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Men Strange Wrecks
He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
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Honesty Vulgar
When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity.
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Enemy Grief Men
A good man will avoid the spot of any sin. The very aspersion is grievous, which makes him choose his way in his life, as he would in his journey.
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Aspersion Choose Good Journey Men
No simple word That shall be uttered at our mirthful board, Shall make us sad next morning; or affright The liberty that we’ll enjoy to-night.
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Morning Regret Simple
One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
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Character Trouble Women
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
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
He that is respectless in his courses oft sells his reputation at cheap market.
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Courses Reputation Sells

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