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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

Blueness doth express trueness.
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Color Trueness
He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
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Honesty Vulgar
Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
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Faces Home House
Books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction.
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Book Faithful May
What excellent fools religion makes of men.
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Men Religion Religious
O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
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Forget Sun Time
Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
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Imperfect Light Opinion Things
Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
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Ambition Inspiration Looks
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
For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries: to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of his own style.
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Exercise Men Writing
No man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
BEN JONSON

Easily May Men Taught Wise
Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.
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Affliction Person Prayer Wicked
Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.
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Heart Hypocrisy Spread
O! How vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do.
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Fear Men Passion
The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.
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Men Smoking
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.
BEN JONSON

Broken Honor Long

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