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I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.

Ben Jonson

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
The way to rise is to obey and please.
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Please Success Way
There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
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Fear Hell No Prisoner
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
Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
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Clothes Countenance Wit
In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
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Absence Hope Love Miss Sweet
Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
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Beast Flattery Tyrant
Language most shows a man; speak that I may see thee; it springs out of the most retired and inmost parts of us, and is the image of the parent of it, the mind. No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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Glasses Men Spring
It is the highest of earthly honors to be descended from the great and good. They alone cry out against a noble ancestry who have none of their own.
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Ancestry Honor Noble
Money never made any man rich, but his mind. He that can order himself to the law of nature, is not only without the sense, but the fear of poverty.
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Law Men Mind Order Sense
You are not now to think what’s best to do, As in beginnings, but what must be done, Being thus enter’d; and slip no advantage That may secure you. Let them call it mischief; When it is past, and prosper’d , ’twill be virtue.
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Mischief Past Virtue
There is no bounty to be showed to such As have real goodness: Bounty is A spice of virtue; and what virtuous act Can take effect on them that have no power Of equal habitude to apprehend it?
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Real Spices Virtue
A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pestilence, it doth infect the houses of the brain till not a thought, or motion, in the mind, be free from the black poison of suspect.
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Black Brain House
Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star.
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Fall Love Stars
Your highest female grace is silence.
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Female Grace Silence
Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
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Beast Fats Mischief

I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.

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