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The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.

Ben Jonson

That old bald cheater, Time.
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Bald Cheater Old Time
Honor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.
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Hate Honor Men Time
Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
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Leadership May Men
Now we are all fallen, youth from their fear, And age from that which bred it, good example.
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Age Example Fallen Good Youth
Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.
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Praise Strikes Strokes
He that is respectless in his courses oft sells his reputation at cheap market.
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Courses Reputation Sells
Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
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Mind Punishment Vices
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
Many punishments sometimes, and in some cases, as much discredit a prince as many funerals a physician.
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Funeral Physicians Punishment
Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
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Faces Home House
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
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
Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
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Frail Memories Mind
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
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
Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.
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