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

Ben Jonson

Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
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Mind Punishment Vices
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
It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.
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Art Giving Lying
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
Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!
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May Poetry War
Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star.
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Fall Love Stars
How near to good is what is fair!
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Fairs Good Goodness Near
The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
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Men Money
I do honor the very flea of his dog.
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Dog Hero Honor
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
The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
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Evil Hate Men Oppress
Your highest female grace is silence.
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Female Grace Silence
Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast, Still to be powder’d, all perfum’d. Lady, it is to be presumed, Though art’s hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound.
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Art Causes Drest Near Sweet
Nor shall our cups make any guilty men; But at our parting, we will be, as when We innocently met.
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Cup Drinking Men
Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
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Book Looks Reader
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

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

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