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

Ben Jonson

Well, I will scourge those apes, And to these courteous eyes oppose a mirror, As large as is the stage whereon we act; Where they shall see the time’s deformity Anatomised in every nerve, and sinew, With constant courage, and contempt of fear.
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Act Apes Courage Eye Mirror Time
There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
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Fear Hell No Prisoner
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
Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
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Clothes Countenance Wit
Guilt’s a terrible thing.
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Guilt Terrible Things
Rich apparel has strange virtues; it makes him that hath it without means esteemed for an excellent wit; he that enjoys it with means puts the world in remembrance of his means.
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Mean Remembrance Rich World
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
Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.
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Heart Hypocrisy Spread
Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
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Leadership May Men
The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
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Acknowledge Ass Devil
How near to good is what is fair!
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Fairs Good Goodness Near
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
I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
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Father Men Parent
The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
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Men Money
Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
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Ambition Needs Slave
He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.
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Glory Servant Virtue

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