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He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.

Ben Jonson

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
Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
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Ambition Needs Slave
Truth is man’s proper good, and the only immortal thing was given to our mortality to use.
BEN JONSON

Men Truth Use
Silence in woman is like speech in man.
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Men Silence Speech
No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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Glasses Men Speech
I now think, Love is rather deaf, than blind, For else it could not be, That she, Whom I adore so much, should so slight me, And cast my love behind.
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Blind Love Slight Thinking
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
I know no disease of the soul but ignorance, a pernicious evil, the darkener of man’s life, the disturber of his reason, and common confounder of truth.
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Ignorance Men Science
He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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Art Fool Inspirational
A good poet’s made as well as born.
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Born Made Poet
Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
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Imperfect Light Opinion Things
There is no bounty to be showed to such As have real goodness: Bounty is A spice of virtue; and what virtuous act Can take effect on them that have no power Of equal habitude to apprehend it?
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Real Spices Virtue
I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never plotted out a line. My answer hath been, would he had blotted a thousand.
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Answer Lines Mention Penend Player Writing
Nothing is more short-lived than pride.
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Live Pride Short
A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
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Eye Government Letter
A valiant man Ought not to undergo, or tempt a danger, But worthily, and by selected ways, He undertakes with reason, not by chance. His valor is the salt t’ his other virtues, They’re all unseason’d without it.
BEN JONSON

Men Salt Way

He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.

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