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O! How vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do.

Ben Jonson

If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.
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Art Being Poverty True
He that is respectless in his courses oft sells his reputation at cheap market.
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Courses Reputation Sells
I have discovered that a famed familiarity in great ones is a note of certain usurpation on the less; for great and popular men feign themselves to be servants to others to make those slaves to them.
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Men Popularity Slave
There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
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Fear Hell No Prisoner
Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
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Death Good Man Men
Truth is man’s proper good, and the only immortal thing was given to our mortality to use.
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Men Truth Use
Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.
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Good Man Heaven Men
I am beholden to calumny, that she hath so endeavored to belie me.-It shall make me set a surer guard on myself, and keep a better watch upon my actions.
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Action Calumny Watches
The burnt child dreads the fire.
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Children Dread Fire
Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
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Ambition Inspiration Looks
No simple word That shall be uttered at our mirthful board, Shall make us sad next morning; or affright The liberty that we’ll enjoy to-night.
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Morning Regret Simple
Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.
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Cutting Men Whispering
Very few men are wise by their own council, or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself, had a fool for a master.
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Men Teaching Wise
All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
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Little Wise World
Ambition, like a torrent, ne’er looks back; And is a swelling, and the last affection A high mind can put off; being both a rebel Unto the soul and reason, and enforceth All laws, all conscience, treads upon religion, and offereth violence to nature’s self.
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Ambition Conscience Law Rebel Self Soul
Guilt’s a terrible thing.
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Guilt Terrible Things

O! How vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do.

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