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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

Ben Jonson

Truth is man’s proper good, and the only immortal thing was given to our mortality to use.
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Men Truth Use
My thoughts and I were of another world.
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Another World Thoughts
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
True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
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Friendship Happiness Positive
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 covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
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Men Money
… the best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle.
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Anchors Needs Sea
He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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Art Fool Inspirational
Hang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.
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Care Cat Sorrow
Hell itself must yield to industry.
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Hell Industry Yield
Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.
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Affliction Person Prayer Wicked
Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.
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Envy Honor Two
He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
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Honesty Vulgar
The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
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Dignity Life Losing
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
Where dost thou careless lie, Buried in ease and sloth? Knowledge that sleeps, doth die; And this security, It is the common moth, That eats on wits and arts, and oft destroys them both.
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Art Common Lying Security Sleep

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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