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God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man’s dearer than to himself.

Ben Jonson

Sweet meat must have sour sauce.
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Meat Swans Sweet
Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
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Court Deny Mistress
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
Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
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Leadership May Men
Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
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Ambition Needs Slave
Very few men are wise by their own council, or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself, had a fool for a master.
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Men Teaching Wise
To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
BEN JONSON

Change Men Want Welcome
Confound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
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Funny Humor Ideas
Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
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Lines Sweat Writing
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
The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
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Evil Hate Men Oppress
A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
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Eye Government Letter
Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!
BEN JONSON

May Poetry War
Princes that would their people should do well Must at themselves begin, as at the head; For men, by their example, pattern out Their limitations, and regard of laws: A virtuous court a world to virtue draws.
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Example Law Men Patteren People
To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
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Communication Motivational Wise
All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
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Little Wise World

God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man’s dearer than to himself.

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