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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.

Ben Jonson

Poets are far rarer birds than kings.
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Bird Kings Poet
Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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Fortune Men
Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast, Still to be powder’d, all perfum’d. Lady, it is to be presumed, Though art’s hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound.
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Art Causes Drest Near Sweet
Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
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Clothes Countenance Wit
The burnt child dreads the fire.
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Children Dread Fire
Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star.
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Fall Love Stars
He threatens many that hath injured one.
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Crime Injured Threaten
True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
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Joy Speak Tongue
All concord’s born of contraries.
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Born Contradiction Contrary
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
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
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
When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity.
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Enemy Grief Men
Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.
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Heart Hypocrisy Spread
The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.
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Men Smoking
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

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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