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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?

Ben Jonson

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.
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Honesty Men Persuade Simple Two Wisdom
The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
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Men Money
Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
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Court Deny Mistress
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
I have been at my book; and am now past the craggy paths of study, and come to the flowery plains of honour and reputation
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Education Inspirational Past
The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
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Orators Oratory Poet
I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
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Glory Greed Wealth
Where dost thou careless lie, Buried in ease and sloth? Knowledge that sleeps, doth die; And this security, It is the common moth, That eats on wits and arts, and oft destroys them both.
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Art Common Lying Security Sleep
My thoughts and I were of another world.
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Another World Thoughts
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
If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.
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Art Being Poverty True
He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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Art Fool Inspirational
Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
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Passion Spiritual Understanding
Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
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Mind Punishment Vices
Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
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Art Enemy Ignorance
And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow’d them with her odorous foot.
BEN JONSON

Feet Flower Roots

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