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You learn nothing about someone by the way they win the fight, you learn everything about the way they lose and keep coming back.

Ben Jonson

Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
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Ambition Inspiration Looks
That old bald cheater, Time.
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Bald Cheater Old Time
Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
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Mind Punishment Vices
God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man’s dearer than to himself.
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Men Strange Wrecks
Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.
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Folly Impudence Rudeness
Books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction.
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Book Faithful May
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
He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.
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Glory Servant Virtue
A good life is a main argument.
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Argument Good Inspirational Life
Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
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Court Deny Mistress
Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!
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May Poetry War
Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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Force Free Nature Servile
Many might go to heaven with half the labour they go to hell, if they would venture their industry the right way.
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Half Heaven Venture
A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pestilence, it doth infect the houses of the brain till not a thought, or motion, in the mind, be free from the black poison of suspect.
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Black Brain House
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
When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity.
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Enemy Grief Men

You learn nothing about someone by the way they win the fight, you learn everything about the way they lose and keep coming back.

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