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He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

Ben Jonson

It is as great a spite to be praised in the wrong place, and by a wrong person, as can be done to a noble nature.
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Done Noble Person Wrong
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
Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
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Clothes Countenance Wit
Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
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Disease Talking
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
I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
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Glory Greed Wealth
A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
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Good Loss Men Rise
Sweet meat must have sour sauce.
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Meat Swans Sweet
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 that is respectless in his courses oft sells his reputation at cheap market.
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Courses Reputation Sells
Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
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Leadership May Men
A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pestilence, it doth infect the houses of the brain till not a thought, or motion, in the mind, be free from the black poison of suspect.
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Black Brain House
A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.
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Gratitude Men Needs
Fear to do base, unworthy things is valor; if they be one to us, to suffer them is valor too.
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Courage Suffering Valor
The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
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Men Money
Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
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Ambition Needs Slave

He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

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