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

Ben Jonson

There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
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Creeds Doctrine Good Waiting
It is the highest of earthly honors to be descended from the great and good. They alone cry out against a noble ancestry who have none of their own.
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Ancestry Honor Noble
One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
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Character Trouble Women
O! How vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do.
BEN JONSON

Fear Men Passion
A valiant man Ought not to undergo, or tempt a danger, But worthily, and by selected ways, He undertakes with reason, not by chance. His valor is the salt t’ his other virtues, They’re all unseason’d without it.
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Men Salt Way
Calumnies are answered best with silence.
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Advice Silence
When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity.
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Enemy Grief Men
A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
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Eye Government Letter
I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.
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Affected Eloquence Foolish
He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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Art Fool Inspirational
Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.
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Affliction Person Prayer Wicked
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
The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
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Dignity Life Losing
Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
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Imperfect Light Opinion Things
Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
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Boys Mean Money
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

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