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Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.

Ben Jonson

I have no urns, no dusty monuments; No broken images of ancestors, Wanting an ear, or nose; no forged tales Of long descents, to boast false honors from.
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Broken Honor Long
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
Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.
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Looks Meaning Weigh
In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
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June Life Perfect Summer
Prevent your day at morning.
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Day Morning Prevent
Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
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Anxiety Care Possession
O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
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Forget Sun Time
We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.
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Fashion Quality Women
I am beholden to calumny, that she hath so endeavored to belie me.-It shall make me set a surer guard on myself, and keep a better watch upon my actions.
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Action Calumny Watches
Princes that would their people should do well Must at themselves begin, as at the head; For men, by their example, pattern out Their limitations, and regard of laws: A virtuous court a world to virtue draws.
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Example Law Men Patteren People
A good dog deserves a good bone.
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Bones Canine Dog
Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
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Dream Hate Hatred
He was not of an age, but for all time!
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Age Time
I know no disease of the soul but ignorance, a pernicious evil, the darkener of man’s life, the disturber of his reason, and common confounder of truth.
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Ignorance Men Science
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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Ancient Heaven Silent
Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.
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Good Man Heaven Men

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