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Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need

Ben Jonson

Ambition, like a torrent, ne’er looks back; And is a swelling, and the last affection A high mind can put off; being both a rebel Unto the soul and reason, and enforceth All laws, all conscience, treads upon religion, and offereth violence to nature’s self.
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Ambition Conscience Law Rebel Self Soul
Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.
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Heart Hypocrisy Spread
A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
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Eye Government Letter
Ods me I marle what pleasure or felicity they have in taking their roguish tobacco. It is good for nothing but to choke a man, and fill him full of smoke and embers.
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Cigarette Smoke Men Smoking
Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
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Ambition Inspiration Looks
Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!
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May Poetry War
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
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
Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.
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Art Men Monsters
It is the highest of earthly honors to be descended from the great and good. They alone cry out against a noble ancestry who have none of their own.
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Ancestry Honor Noble
A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.
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Gratitude Men Needs
Peace is never more than one thought away.
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Away Harmony More Peace
Very few men are wise by their own council, or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself, had a fool for a master.
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Men Teaching Wise
If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.
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Art Being Poverty True
Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.
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Praise Strikes Strokes
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

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