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He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.

Ben Jonson

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
A good life is a main argument.
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Argument Good Inspirational Life
Prevent your day at morning.
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Day Morning Prevent
Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
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Ambition Inspiration Looks
How near to good is what is fair!
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Fairs Good Goodness Near
It is as great a spite to be praised in the wrong place, and by a wrong person, as can be done to a noble nature.
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Done Noble Person Wrong
God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man’s dearer than to himself.
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Men Strange Wrecks
Silence in woman is like speech in man.
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Men Silence Speech
Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
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Dream Hate Hatred
There is no bounty to be showed to such As have real goodness: Bounty is A spice of virtue; and what virtuous act Can take effect on them that have no power Of equal habitude to apprehend it?
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Real Spices Virtue
A good dog deserves a good bone.
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Bones Canine Dog
You are not now to think what’s best to do, As in beginnings, but what must be done, Being thus enter’d; and slip no advantage That may secure you. Let them call it mischief; When it is past, and prosper’d , ’twill be virtue.
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Mischief Past Virtue
Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
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Beast Flattery Tyrant
Rich apparel has strange virtues; it makes him that hath it without means esteemed for an excellent wit; he that enjoys it with means puts the world in remembrance of his means.
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Mean Remembrance Rich World
Tell troth and shame the devil.
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Devil Shame Truth
Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!
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May Poetry War

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