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Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star.

Ben Jonson

No man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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Easily May Men Taught Wise
I am beholden to calumny, that she hath so endeavored to belie me.-It shall make me set a surer guard on myself, and keep a better watch upon my actions.
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Action Calumny Watches
Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
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Leadership May Men
Poor worms, they hiss at me, whilst I at home Can be contented to applaud myself, . . . with joy To see how plump my bags are and my barns.
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Home Joy
He was not of an age, but for all time!
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Age Time
Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.
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Affliction Person Prayer Wicked
To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
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Change Men Want Welcome
Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
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Imperfect Light Opinion Things
Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace Robes loosely flowing, hair as free Such sweet neglect more taketh me Than all the adulteries of art: They strike mine eyes, but not my heart.
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Art Eye Neglect Simplicity Sweet
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
How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
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Fortune Practise Sports
Nor shall our cups make any guilty men; But at our parting, we will be, as when We innocently met.
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Cup Drinking Men
O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
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Forget Sun Time
It holds for good polity ever, to have that outwardly in vilest estimation, which inwardly is most dear to us.
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Dear Estimation Hypocrisy
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
The world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
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Conceited Fools Rome Two

Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star.

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