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Fortune, that favors fools.

Ben Jonson

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
If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
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Illness Neurosis Sick
He that is respectless in his courses oft sells his reputation at cheap market.
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Courses Reputation Sells
The voice so sweet, the words so fair, As some soft chime had stroked the air; And though the sound had parted thence, Still left an echo in the sense.
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Air Echoes Parted Sweet Thence
Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
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Ambition Inspiration Looks
Honor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.
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Hate Honor Men Time
No simple word That shall be uttered at our mirthful board, Shall make us sad next morning; or affright The liberty that we’ll enjoy to-night.
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Morning Regret Simple
Poets are far rarer birds than kings.
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Bird Kings Poet
Prevent your day at morning.
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Day Morning Prevent
O! How vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do.
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Fear Men Passion
Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
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Art Enemy Ignorance
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
How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
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Fortune Practise Sports
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
The world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
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Conceited Fools Rome Two
Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
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Disease Talking

Fortune, that favors fools.

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