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Honor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.

Ben Jonson

Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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Force Free Nature Servile
There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
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Fear Hell No Prisoner
Well, I will scourge those apes, And to these courteous eyes oppose a mirror, As large as is the stage whereon we act; Where they shall see the time’s deformity Anatomised in every nerve, and sinew, With constant courage, and contempt of fear.
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Act Apes Courage Eye Mirror Time
Tell troth and shame the devil.
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Devil Shame Truth
The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
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Orators Oratory Poet
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
To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
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Communication Motivational Wise
I have discovered that a famed familiarity in great ones is a note of certain usurpation on the less; for great and popular men feign themselves to be servants to others to make those slaves to them.
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Men Popularity Slave
Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
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Disease Talking
Confound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
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Funny Humor Ideas
A good king is a public servant.
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Good King Kings Servant
O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
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Forget Sun Time
A good man will avoid the spot of any sin. The very aspersion is grievous, which makes him choose his way in his life, as he would in his journey.
BEN JONSON

Aspersion Choose Good Journey Men
Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.
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Praise Strikes Strokes
Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
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Angry Concern Slander
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

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