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Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need

Ben Jonson

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
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
The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
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Orators Oratory Poet
Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
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Faces Home House
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
Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
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Clothes Countenance Wit
Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
BEN JONSON

Relax Reputation Ruins
If men will impartially, and not asquint, look toward the offices and function of a poet, they will easily conclude to themselves the impossibility of any man’s being a good poet without first being a good man.
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Good Man Men Office
Your highest female grace is silence.
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Female Grace Silence
It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.
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Art Giving Lying
Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
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Boys Mean Money
Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
BEN JONSON

Anarchy Drinking Thinking
Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.
BEN JONSON

Folly Impudence Rudeness
Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.
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Heart Hypocrisy Spread
A valiant man Ought not to undergo, or tempt a danger, But worthily, and by selected ways, He undertakes with reason, not by chance. His valor is the salt t’ his other virtues, They’re all unseason’d without it.
BEN JONSON

Men Salt Way
I have no urns, no dusty monuments; No broken images of ancestors, Wanting an ear, or nose; no forged tales Of long descents, to boast false honors from.
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Broken Honor Long

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