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No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.

Ben Jonson

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
… the best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle.
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Anchors Needs Sea
True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
BEN JONSON

Friendship Happiness Positive
Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
BEN JONSON

Disease Talking
Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.
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Art Men Monsters
I have been at my book; and am now past the craggy paths of study, and come to the flowery plains of honour and reputation
BEN JONSON

Education Inspirational Past
Hell itself must yield to industry.
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Hell Industry Yield
Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
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Passion Spiritual Understanding
Truth is man’s proper good, and the only immortal thing was given to our mortality to use.
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Men Truth Use
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
My thoughts and I were of another world.
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Another World Thoughts
The way to rise is to obey and please.
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Please Success Way
It is a note Of upstart greatness to observe and watch For these poor trifles, which the noble mind Neglects and scorns.
BEN JONSON

Greatness Mind Scorn Watches
To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
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Change Men Want Welcome
Drink today, and drown all sorrow; You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow; Best, while you have it, use your breath; There is no drinking after death.
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Drinking Sorrow Use
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.
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Aspersion Choose Good Journey Men

No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.

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