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Ben Jonson

A valiant man Ought not to undergo, or tempt a danger, But worthily, and by selected ways, He undertakes with reason, not by chance. His valor is the salt t’ his other virtues, They’re all unseason’d without it.
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Men Salt Way
I have been at my book; and am now past the craggy paths of study, and come to the flowery plains of honour and reputation
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Education Inspirational Past
Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
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Boys Mean Money
True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
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Joy Speak Tongue
… the best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle.
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Anchors Needs Sea
A good dog deserves a good bone.
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Bones Canine Dog
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
I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.
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Affected Eloquence Foolish
For whose sake, henceforth, all his vows be such, As what he loves may never like too much.
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Love May Sake
Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
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Leadership May Men
It is the highest of earthly honors to be descended from the great and good. They alone cry out against a noble ancestry who have none of their own.
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Ancestry Honor Noble
God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man’s dearer than to himself.
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Men Strange Wrecks
Chance will not do the work. Chance sends the breeze; But if the pilot slumber at the helm, The very wind that wafts us tow’rds the port May dash us on the shoals. The steersman’s part Is vigilance, or blow it rough or smooth.
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Blow Slumber Wind
The world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
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Conceited Fools Rome Two
Hell itself must yield to industry.
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Hell Industry Yield
Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.
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Folly Impudence Rudeness

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