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Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink

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
That old bald cheater, Time.
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Bald Cheater Old Time
It holds for good polity ever, to have that outwardly in vilest estimation, which inwardly is most dear to us.
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Dear Estimation Hypocrisy
If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.
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Art Being Poverty True
A good man will avoid the spot of any sin. The very aspersion is grievous, which makes him choose his way in his life, as he would in his journey.
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Aspersion Choose Good Journey Men
Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
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Anarchy Drinking Thinking
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
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
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
Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
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Ambition Needs Slave
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
True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
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Friendship Happiness Positive
Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.
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Past Winning Years
Fear to do base, unworthy things is valor; if they be one to us, to suffer them is valor too.
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Courage Suffering Valor
You are not now to think what’s best to do, As in beginnings, but what must be done, Being thus enter’d; and slip no advantage That may secure you. Let them call it mischief; When it is past, and prosper’d , ’twill be virtue.
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Mischief Past Virtue
One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
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Character Trouble Women

Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink

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