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How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!

Ben Jonson

I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
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Glory Greed Wealth
Honor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.
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Hate Honor Men Time
Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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Force Free Nature Servile
My thoughts and I were of another world.
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Another World Thoughts
Peace is never more than one thought away.
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Away Harmony More Peace
Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
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Angry Concern Slander
True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
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Joy Speak Tongue
Hang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.
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Care Cat Sorrow
The two chief things that give a man reputation in counsel, are the opinion of his honesty, and the opinion of his wisdom; the authority of those two will persuade.
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Honesty Men Persuade Simple Two Wisdom
Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.
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Envy Honor Two
If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
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Illness Neurosis Sick
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
A good dog deserves a good bone.
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Bones Canine Dog
Indeed there’s a woundy luck in names.
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Indeed Luck Names Woundy
Follow a shadow, it still flies you, Seem to fly, it will pursue: So court a mistress, she denies you; Let her alone, she will court you. Say are not women truly, then, Styled but the shadows of us men?
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Men Mistress Shadow
Confound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
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