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Ben Jonson

Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
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Ambition Needs Slave
Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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Fortune Men
Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
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Faces Home House
It is a note Of upstart greatness to observe and watch For these poor trifles, which the noble mind Neglects and scorns.
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Greatness Mind Scorn Watches
Language most shows a man; speak that I may see thee; it springs out of the most retired and inmost parts of us, and is the image of the parent of it, the mind. No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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Glasses Men Spring
… the best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle.
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Anchors Needs Sea
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
Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star.
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Fall Love Stars
Honor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.
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Hate Honor Men Time
When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity.
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Enemy Grief Men
Our whole life is like a play.
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Life Play Whole
[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.
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Conceited English Plain Play
True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
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Friendship Happiness Positive
All concord’s born of contraries.
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Born Contradiction Contrary
A good king is a public servant.
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Good King Kings Servant
To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
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Communication Motivational Wise

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