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There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
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Fear Hell No Prisoner
Nothing is more short-lived than pride.
BEN JONSON

Live Pride Short
It is as great a spite to be praised in the wrong place, and by a wrong person, as can be done to a noble nature.
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Done Noble Person Wrong
Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
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Passion Spiritual Understanding
Honor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.
BEN JONSON

Hate Honor Men Time
Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.
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Art Men Monsters
Man and wife make one fool.
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Marriage Men Wife
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
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
To struggle when hope is banished! To live when life’s salt is gone! To dwell in a dream that’s vanished- To endure, and go calmly on!
BEN JONSON

Dream Life Struggle Vanish
Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.
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Disease Mean Music
He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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Art Fool Inspirational
All concord’s born of contraries.
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Born Contradiction Contrary
Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
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Hate Hatred Ignorant
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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Art Fighting Winning
The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
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Men Money

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