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A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.

Ben Jonson

He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
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Honesty Vulgar
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
Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.
BEN JONSON

Looks Meaning Weigh
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 been at my book; and am now past the craggy paths of study, and come to the flowery plains of honour and reputation
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Education Inspirational Past
Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace Robes loosely flowing, hair as free Such sweet neglect more taketh me Than all the adulteries of art: They strike mine eyes, but not my heart.
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Art Eye Neglect Simplicity Sweet
Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
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Ambition Inspiration Looks
A lily of a day Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be.
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Die Fall Flower Night Proportion
That I might live alone once with my gold! O, ’tis a sweet companion! kind and true: A man may trust it when his father cheats him, Brother, or friend, or wife. O wondrous pelf! That which makes all men false, is true itself.
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Alone Brother Companions Money Sweet
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
Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
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Hate Hatred Ignorant
In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
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June Life Perfect Summer
How near to good is what is fair!
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Fairs Good Goodness Near
It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.
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Art Giving Lying
Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
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Leadership May Men
There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
BEN JONSON

Fear Hell No Prisoner

A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.

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