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The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
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Men Money
True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
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Friendship Happiness Positive
Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
BEN JONSON

Beast Flattery Tyrant
Minds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause: ‘Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause.
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Applause Crowns Mind Virtue
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
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?
BEN JONSON

Real Spices Virtue
I’ll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news.
BEN JONSON

False Giving News True
True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
BEN JONSON

Fine Melancholy Perfect Wit
One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
BEN JONSON

Character Trouble Women
I am beholden to calumny, that she hath so endeavored to belie me.-It shall make me set a surer guard on myself, and keep a better watch upon my actions.
BEN JONSON

Action Calumny Watches
I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.
BEN JONSON

Compassion Justice Weakness
True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
BEN JONSON

Joy Speak Tongue
Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.
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Guilt Guilty Shame
It is less dishonor to hear imperfectly than to speak imperfectly. The ears are excused; the understanding is not.
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Ears Speak Understanding
I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
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Glory Greed Wealth
Tis no sin love’s fruits to steal; But the sweet thefts to reveal; To be taken, to be seen, These have crimes accounted been.
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Fruit Sweet Taken

Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.

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