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How ready is heaven to those that pray!

Ben Jonson

Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
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Boys Mean Money
What excellent fools religion makes of men.
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Men Religion Religious
Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
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Frail Memories Mind
We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.
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Fashion Quality Women
Hell itself must yield to industry.
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Hell Industry Yield
Nothing is more short-lived than pride.
BEN JONSON

Live Pride Short
Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
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Passion Spiritual Understanding
There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
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Creeds Doctrine Good Waiting
The burnt child dreads the fire.
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Children Dread Fire
True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
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Friendship Happiness Positive
Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.
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Heart Hypocrisy Spread
Poor worms, they hiss at me, whilst I at home Can be contented to applaud myself, . . . with joy To see how plump my bags are and my barns.
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Home Joy
Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star.
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Fall Love Stars
No man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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Easily May Men Taught Wise
The voice so sweet, the words so fair, As some soft chime had stroked the air; And though the sound had parted thence, Still left an echo in the sense.
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Air Echoes Parted Sweet Thence
Fear to do base, unworthy things is valor; if they be one to us, to suffer them is valor too.
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Courage Suffering Valor

How ready is heaven to those that pray!

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