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Ben Jonson

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
The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.
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Birthday Praying Return
That I might live alone once with my gold! O, ’tis a sweet companion! kind and true: A man may trust it when his father cheats him, Brother, or friend, or wife. O wondrous pelf! That which makes all men false, is true itself.
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Alone Brother Companions Money Sweet
A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
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Eye Government Letter
Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
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Ambition Inspiration Looks
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
That old bald cheater, Time.
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Bald Cheater Old Time
Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!
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Age Delight Soul Wonder
Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.
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Past Winning Years
It is a note Of upstart greatness to observe and watch For these poor trifles, which the noble mind Neglects and scorns.
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Greatness Mind Scorn Watches
Man and wife make one fool.
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Marriage Men Wife
Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
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Leadership May Men
Honor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.
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Hate Honor Men Time
He threatens many that hath injured one.
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Crime Injured Threaten
Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
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Anxiety Care Possession
Men that talk of their own benefits are not believed to talk of them because they have done them, but to have done them because they might talk of them.
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Benefits Done Men

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