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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.

Ben Jonson

Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
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Angry Concern Slander
He that is respectless in his courses oft sells his reputation at cheap market.
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Courses Reputation Sells
Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
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Book Looks Reader
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
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
For he that once is good, is ever great.
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Good Greatness Once
If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
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Illness Neurosis Sick
Man and wife make one fool.
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Marriage Men Wife
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
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.
BEN JONSON

Honesty Men Persuade Simple Two Wisdom
He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
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Honesty Vulgar
He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.
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Glory Servant Virtue
O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
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Forget Sun Time
All concord’s born of contraries.
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Born Contradiction Contrary
I have no urns, no dusty monuments; No broken images of ancestors, Wanting an ear, or nose; no forged tales Of long descents, to boast false honors from.
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Broken Honor Long
We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.
BEN JONSON

Fashion Quality Women

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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