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It holds for good polity ever, to have that outwardly in vilest estimation, which inwardly is most dear to us.

Ben Jonson

The burnt child dreads the fire.
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Children Dread Fire
Money never made any man rich, but his mind. He that can order himself to the law of nature, is not only without the sense, but the fear of poverty.
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Law Men Mind Order Sense
Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
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Faces Home House
Minds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause: ‘Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause.
BEN JONSON

Applause Crowns Mind Virtue
For they have the authority of years, and out of their intermission do win to themselves a kind of grace-like newness. But the eldest of the present, and newest of the past Language, is the best.
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Intermission Newest Present Themselves
It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
BEN JONSON

Giving Men Virtue
True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
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Joy Speak Tongue
A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
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Good Loss Men Rise
Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast, Still to be powder’d, all perfum’d. Lady, it is to be presumed, Though art’s hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound.
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Art Causes Drest Near Sweet
A good dog deserves a good bone.
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Bones Canine Dog
Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.
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Guilt Guilty Shame
… the best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle.
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Anchors Needs Sea
Well, I will scourge those apes, And to these courteous eyes oppose a mirror, As large as is the stage whereon we act; Where they shall see the time’s deformity Anatomised in every nerve, and sinew, With constant courage, and contempt of fear.
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Act Apes Courage Eye Mirror Time
There is no bounty to be showed to such As have real goodness: Bounty is A spice of virtue; and what virtuous act Can take effect on them that have no power Of equal habitude to apprehend it?
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Real Spices Virtue
In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
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Absence Hope Love Miss Sweet
Fortune, that favors fools.
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Favors Fool Fortune

It holds for good polity ever, to have that outwardly in vilest estimation, which inwardly is most dear to us.

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