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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

… the best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle.
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Anchors Needs Sea
That old bald cheater, Time.
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Bald Cheater Old Time
If men will impartially, and not asquint, look toward the offices and function of a poet, they will easily conclude to themselves the impossibility of any man’s being a good poet without first being a good man.
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Good Man Men Office
Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
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Dream Hate Hatred
Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
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Death Good Man Men
Silence in woman is like speech in man.
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Men Silence Speech
He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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Art Fool Inspirational
The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
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Men Money
Greatness of name, in the father, ofttimes helps not forth, but overwhelms the son: They stand too near one another. The shadow kills the growth.
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Father Greatness Son
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
One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
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Character Trouble Women
As it is a great point of art, when our matter requires it, to enlarge and veer out all sail, so to take it in and contract it is of no less praise when the argument doth ask it.
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Art Ask Matter Praise Style
Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
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Anarchy Drinking Thinking
Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
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Book Looks Reader
Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
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Beast Fats Mischief
No man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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Easily May Men Taught Wise

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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