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Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.

Ben Jonson

Poor worms, they hiss at me, whilst I at home Can be contented to applaud myself, . . . with joy To see how plump my bags are and my barns.
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Home Joy
Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!
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May Poetry War
I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
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Glory Greed Wealth
Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.
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Envy Honor Two
He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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Art Fool Inspirational
Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed That sets his doors wide open to a thief, And shows the felon where his treasure lies?
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Doors Judgment Lying Treasure
Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
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Ambition Inspiration Looks
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
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
Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
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Death Good Man Men
God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man’s dearer than to himself.
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Men Strange Wrecks
Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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Force Free Nature Servile
One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
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Character Trouble Women
For whose sake, henceforth, all his vows be such, As what he loves may never like too much.
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Love May Sake
Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.
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Folly Impudence Rudeness

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