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Ben Jonson

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
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
Truth is man’s proper good, and the only immortal thing was given to our mortality to use.
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Men Truth Use
No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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Glasses Men Speech
There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
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Fear Hell No Prisoner
He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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Art Fool Inspirational
Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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Fortune Men
Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
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Clothes Countenance Wit
They, who know no evil, will suspect none.
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Evil Knows Suspect
Tis no sin love’s fruits to steal; But the sweet thefts to reveal; To be taken, to be seen, These have crimes accounted been.
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Fruit Sweet Taken
Nothing is more short-lived than pride.
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Live Pride Short
To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
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Communication Motivational Wise
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
I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.
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Affected Eloquence Foolish
The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
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Men Money
Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.
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Looks Meaning Weigh
Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
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Death Good Man Men
We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.
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Fashion Quality Women
All concord’s born of contraries.
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Born Contradiction Contrary
Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
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Faces Home House
Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
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Angry Concern Slander
True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
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Friendship Happiness Positive
To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.
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Long Pleasure Treasure
That old bald cheater, Time.
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Bald Cheater Old Time
Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
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Dream Hate Hatred
There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
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Creeds Doctrine Good Waiting
Minds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause: ‘Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause.
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Applause Crowns Mind Virtue

Success hath made me wanton.

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