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To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.

Ben Jonson

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
All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
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Little Wise World
Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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Force Free Nature Servile
I now think, Love is rather deaf, than blind, For else it could not be, That she, Whom I adore so much, should so slight me, And cast my love behind.
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Blind Love Slight Thinking
Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!
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May Poetry War
Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
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Death Good Man Men
Poor worms, they hiss at me, whilst I at home Can be contented to applaud myself, . . . with joy To see how plump my bags are and my barns.
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Home Joy
O! How vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do.
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Fear Men Passion
He that is respectless in his courses oft sells his reputation at cheap market.
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Courses Reputation Sells
God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man’s dearer than to himself.
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Men Strange Wrecks
How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
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Fortune Practise Sports
Rich apparel has strange virtues; it makes him that hath it without means esteemed for an excellent wit; he that enjoys it with means puts the world in remembrance of his means.
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Mean Remembrance Rich World
Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
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Art Enemy Ignorance
Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star.
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Fall Love Stars
I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
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Father Men Parent
The world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
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Conceited Fools Rome Two

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