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Ben Jonson

Fortune, that favors fools.
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Favors Fool Fortune
Nor for my peace will I go far, As wanderers do, that still do roam, But make my strengths, such as they are, Here in my bosom, and at home.
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Home Stills Wanderers
Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.
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Beer Drink Wells
O! How vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do.
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Fear Men Passion
Sweet meat must have sour sauce.
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Meat Swans Sweet
Follow a shadow, it still flies you, Seem to fly, it will pursue: So court a mistress, she denies you; Let her alone, she will court you. Say are not women truly, then, Styled but the shadows of us men?
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Men Mistress Shadow
All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
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Little Wise World
That old bald cheater, Time.
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Bald Cheater Old Time
He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
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Honesty Vulgar
Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
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Passion Spiritual Understanding
The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
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Acknowledge Ass Devil
I have been at my book; and am now past the craggy paths of study, and come to the flowery plains of honour and reputation
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Education Inspirational Past
Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed That sets his doors wide open to a thief, And shows the felon where his treasure lies?
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Doors Judgment Lying Treasure
Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
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Ambition Inspiration Looks
True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
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Friendship Happiness Positive
I do honor the very flea of his dog.
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Dog Hero Honor

How near to good is what is fair!

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