Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
BEN JONSONLanguage most shows a man; speak that I may see thee; it springs out of the most retired and inmost parts of us, and is the image of the parent of it, the mind. No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.
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Confound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
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Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
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Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
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Poets are far rarer birds than kings.
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Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
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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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The world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
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If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.
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Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!
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He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.
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The burnt child dreads the fire.
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A good life is a main argument.
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How ready is heaven to those that pray!
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It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
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