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How near to good is what is fair!

Ben Jonson

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
Our whole life is like a play.
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Life Play Whole
Poets are far rarer birds than kings.
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Bird Kings Poet
He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.
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Glory Servant Virtue
Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
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Angry Concern Slander
Success hath made me wanton.
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Hath Made Success Wanton
He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
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Honesty Vulgar
Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.
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Heart Hypocrisy Spread
In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
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June Life Perfect Summer
The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
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Men Money
Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.
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Praise Strikes Strokes
Aristotle was the first accurate critic and truest judge nay, the greatest philosopher the world ever had; for he noted the vices of all knowledges, in all creatures, and out of many men’s perfections in a science he formed still one Art.
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Art Judging Men
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
One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
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Character Trouble Women
The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.
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Birthday Praying Return
Greatness of name, in the father, ofttimes helps not forth, but overwhelms the son: They stand too near one another. The shadow kills the growth.
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Father Greatness Son

How near to good is what is fair!

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