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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.

Ben Jonson

Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
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Mind Punishment Vices
He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.
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Glory Servant Virtue
Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
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Beast Fats Mischief
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
True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
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Friendship Happiness Positive
Money never made any man rich, but his mind. He that can order himself to the law of nature, is not only without the sense, but the fear of poverty.
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Law Men Mind Order Sense
Greatness of name, in the father, ofttimes helps not forth, but overwhelms the son: They stand too near one another. The shadow kills the growth.
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Father Greatness Son
Language most shows a man; speak that I may see thee; it springs out of the most retired and inmost parts of us, and is the image of the parent of it, the mind. No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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Glasses Men Spring
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
As it is a great point of art, when our matter requires it, to enlarge and veer out all sail, so to take it in and contract it is of no less praise when the argument doth ask it.
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Art Ask Matter Praise Style
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
Many might go to heaven with half the labour they go to hell, if they would venture their industry the right way.
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Half Heaven Venture
The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
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Dignity Life Losing
Guilt’s a terrible thing.
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Guilt Terrible Things
Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
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Imperfect Light Opinion Things
If men will impartially, and not asquint, look toward the offices and function of a poet, they will easily conclude to themselves the impossibility of any man’s being a good poet without first being a good man.
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Good Man Men Office

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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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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