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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.

Ben Jonson

The way to rise is to obey and please.
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Please Success Way
Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.
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Folly Impudence Rudeness
Our whole life is like a play.
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Life Play Whole
Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
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Passion Spiritual Understanding
Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
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Beast Flattery Tyrant
Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I’ll not look for wine.
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Food Romantic Wine
I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.
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Compassion Justice Weakness
Confound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
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Funny Humor Ideas
Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
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Ambition Needs Slave
The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
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Orators Oratory Poet
To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.
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Long Pleasure Treasure
If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
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Illness Neurosis Sick
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
Nor use too swelling, or ill-sounded words . . . .
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Sounded Swelling Use Words
Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!
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May Poetry War
Honor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.
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Hate Honor Men Time

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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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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