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Indeed there’s a woundy luck in names.

Ben Jonson

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
It is as great a spite to be praised in the wrong place, and by a wrong person, as can be done to a noble nature.
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Done Noble Person Wrong
Language 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.
BEN JONSON

Glasses Men Spring
True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
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Friendship Happiness Positive
He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.
BEN JONSON

Glory Servant Virtue
I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never plotted out a line. My answer hath been, would he had blotted a thousand.
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Answer Lines Mention Penend Player Writing
A good poet’s made as well as born.
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Born Made Poet
I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.
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Compassion Justice Weakness
Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
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Passion Spiritual Understanding
Peace is never more than one thought away.
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Away Harmony More Peace
For he that once is good, is ever great.
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Good Greatness Once
Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
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Imperfect Light Opinion Things
He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
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Honesty Vulgar
Silence in woman is like speech in man.
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Men Silence Speech
For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries: to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of his own style.
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Exercise Men Writing
Fortune, that favors fools.
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Favors Fool Fortune

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