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Ben Jonson

Princes that would their people should do well Must at themselves begin, as at the head; For men, by their example, pattern out Their limitations, and regard of laws: A virtuous court a world to virtue draws.
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Example Law Men Patteren People
Forbear, you things That stand upon the pinnacles of state, To boast your slippery height! when you do fall, You dash yourselves in pieces, ne’er to rise: And he that lends you pity, is not wise.
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Boast Fall Pieces Wise
Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
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Leadership May Men
Money never made any man rich, but his mind. He that can order himself to the law of nature, is not only without the sense, but the fear of poverty.
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Law Men Mind Order Sense
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
Our whole life is like a play.
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Life Play Whole
Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
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Ambition Needs Slave
And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow’d them with her odorous foot.
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Feet Flower Roots
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
Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.
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Looks Meaning Weigh
The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
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Orators Oratory Poet
I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.
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Compassion Justice Weakness
A good life is a main argument.
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Argument Good Inspirational Life
He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.
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Glory Servant Virtue
I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
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Father Men Parent
Language most shows a man; speak that I may see thee; it springs out of the most retired and inmost parts of us, and is the image of the parent of it, the mind. No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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Glasses Men Spring

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