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Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.

Ben Jonson

Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
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Passion Spiritual Understanding
Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
BEN JONSON

Boys Mean Money
Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.
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Cutting Men Whispering
The world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
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Conceited Fools Rome Two
Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.
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Good Man Heaven Men
O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
BEN JONSON

Forget Sun Time
Men that talk of their own benefits are not believed to talk of them because they have done them, but to have done them because they might talk of them.
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Benefits Done Men
He threatens many that hath injured one.
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Crime Injured Threaten
True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
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Fine Melancholy Perfect Wit
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
The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.
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Infinite Men Soul
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
O! How vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do.
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Fear Men Passion
Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.
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Disease Mean Music
If you succeed not, cast not away the quills yet, nor scratch the wainscot, beat not the poor desk, but bring all to the forge and file again; turn it new.
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Crafts Scratches Succeed
Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.
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Folly Impudence Rudeness

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