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To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.

Ben Jonson

The two chief things that give a man reputation in counsel, are the opinion of his honesty, and the opinion of his wisdom; the authority of those two will persuade.
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Honesty Men Persuade Simple Two Wisdom
Nor use too swelling, or ill-sounded words . . . .
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Sounded Swelling Use Words
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
He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
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Honesty Vulgar
We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.
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Fashion Quality Women
The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
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Orators Oratory Poet
Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed That sets his doors wide open to a thief, And shows the felon where his treasure lies?
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Doors Judgment Lying Treasure
Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
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Art Enemy Ignorance
For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries: to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of his own style.
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Exercise Men Writing
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
Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star.
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Fall Love Stars
God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man’s dearer than to himself.
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Men Strange Wrecks
Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
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Anarchy Drinking Thinking
He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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Art Fool Inspirational
O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
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Forget Sun Time
I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
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Glory Greed Wealth

To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.

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To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.

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