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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

I have been at my book; and am now past the craggy paths of study, and come to the flowery plains of honour and reputation
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Education Inspirational Past
Sweet meat must have sour sauce.
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Meat Swans Sweet
True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
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Fine Melancholy Perfect Wit
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
The world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
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Conceited Fools Rome Two
Indeed there’s a woundy luck in names.
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Indeed Luck Names Woundy
He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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Art Fool Inspirational
Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
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Beast Flattery Tyrant
Follow a shadow, it still flies you, Seem to fly, it will pursue: So court a mistress, she denies you; Let her alone, she will court you. Say are not women truly, then, Styled but the shadows of us men?
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Men Mistress Shadow
Queen and huntress, chaste and fair Now the sun is laid to sleep, Seated in thy silver chair, State in wonted manner keep: Hesperus entreats thy light Goddess, excellently bright.
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Chair Light Queens Seated Sleep
Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!
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May Poetry War
And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow’d them with her odorous foot.
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Feet Flower Roots
Peace is never more than one thought away.
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Away Harmony More Peace
The way to rise is to obey and please.
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Please Success Way
Chance will not do the work. Chance sends the breeze; But if the pilot slumber at the helm, The very wind that wafts us tow’rds the port May dash us on the shoals. The steersman’s part Is vigilance, or blow it rough or smooth.
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Blow Slumber Wind
Freedom doth with degree dispense.
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Degree Dispense Freedom
He that is respectless in his courses oft sells his reputation at cheap market.
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Courses Reputation Sells
No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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Glasses Men Speech
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
Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.
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Beer Drink Wells
A lily of a day Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be.
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Die Fall Flower Night Proportion
Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed That sets his doors wide open to a thief, And shows the felon where his treasure lies?
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Doors Judgment Lying Treasure
Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
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Faces Home House
Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
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Frail Memories Mind
He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.
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Glory Servant Virtue
Tis no sin love’s fruits to steal; But the sweet thefts to reveal; To be taken, to be seen, These have crimes accounted been.
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Fruit Sweet Taken

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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