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I have discovered that a famed familiarity in great ones is a note of certain usurpation on the less; for great and popular men feign themselves to be servants to others to make those slaves to them.

Ben Jonson

A valiant man Ought not to undergo, or tempt a danger, But worthily, and by selected ways, He undertakes with reason, not by chance. His valor is the salt t’ his other virtues, They’re all unseason’d without it.
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Men Salt Way
To struggle when hope is banished! To live when life’s salt is gone! To dwell in a dream that’s vanished- To endure, and go calmly on!
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Dream Life Struggle Vanish
Blueness doth express trueness.
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Color Trueness
The way to rise is to obey and please.
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Please Success Way
Peace is never more than one thought away.
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Away Harmony More Peace
Prevent your day at morning.
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Day Morning Prevent
Freedom doth with degree dispense.
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Degree Dispense Freedom
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
I have discovered that a famed familiarity in great ones is a note of certain usurpation on the less; for great and popular men feign themselves to be servants to others to make those slaves to them.
BEN JONSON

Men Popularity Slave
And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow’d them with her odorous foot.
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Feet Flower Roots
There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
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Creeds Doctrine Good Waiting
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
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.
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Glasses Men Spring
Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
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Book Looks Reader
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
Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
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Passion Spiritual Understanding

I have discovered that a famed familiarity in great ones is a note of certain usurpation on the less; for great and popular men feign themselves to be servants to others to make those slaves to them.

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I have discovered that a famed familiarity in great ones is a note of certain usurpation on the less; for great and popular men feign themselves to be servants to others to make those slaves to them.

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