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Chance will not do the work. Chance sends the breeze; But if the pilot slumber at the helm, The very wind that wafts us tow’rds the port May dash us on the shoals. The steersman’s part Is vigilance, or blow it rough or smooth.

Ben Jonson

Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
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Ambition Needs Slave
Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
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Anarchy Drinking Thinking
He that is respectless in his courses oft sells his reputation at cheap market.
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Courses Reputation Sells
Calumnies are answered best with silence.
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Advice Silence
Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.
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Good Time Illustrate Men Stars
Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
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Leadership May Men
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
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
In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
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Absence Hope Love Miss Sweet
Truth is man’s proper good, and the only immortal thing was given to our mortality to use.
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Men Truth Use
The way to rise is to obey and please.
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Please Success Way
Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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Force Free Nature Servile
He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
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Honesty Vulgar
How ready is heaven to those that pray!
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Heaven Prayer Praying
Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast, Still to be powder’d, all perfum’d. Lady, it is to be presumed, Though art’s hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound.
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Art Causes Drest Near Sweet
The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.
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Infinite Men Soul

Chance will not do the work. Chance sends the breeze; But if the pilot slumber at the helm, The very wind that wafts us tow’rds the port May dash us on the shoals. The steersman’s part Is vigilance, or blow it rough or smooth.

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Chance will not do the work. Chance sends the breeze; But if the pilot slumber at the helm, The very wind that wafts us tow’rds the port May dash us on the shoals. The steersman’s part Is vigilance, or blow it rough or smooth.

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