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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.

Ben Jonson

Guilt’s a terrible thing.
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Guilt Terrible Things
Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
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Book Looks Reader
Ambition, like a torrent, ne’er looks back; And is a swelling, and the last affection A high mind can put off; being both a rebel Unto the soul and reason, and enforceth All laws, all conscience, treads upon religion, and offereth violence to nature’s self.
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Ambition Conscience Law Rebel Self Soul
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
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
How ready is heaven to those that pray!
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Heaven Prayer Praying
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
The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
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Dignity Life Losing
The two chief things that give a man reputation in counsel, are the opinion of his honesty, and the opinion of his wisdom; the authority of those two will persuade.
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Honesty Men Persuade Simple Two Wisdom
The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
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Men Money
Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
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Lines Sweat Writing
It is the highest of earthly honors to be descended from the great and good. They alone cry out against a noble ancestry who have none of their own.
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Ancestry Honor Noble
There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
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Fear Hell No Prisoner
Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.
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Beer Drink Wells
A good poet’s made as well as born.
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Born Made Poet
All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
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Discourse Harsh Speech

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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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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