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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

In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
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June Life Perfect Summer
Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
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Death Good Man Men
One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
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Character Trouble Women
Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.
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Good Man Heaven Men
Sweet meat must have sour sauce.
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Meat Swans Sweet
Let argument bear no unmusical sound.
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Argument Bears Sound
I now think, Love is rather deaf, than blind, For else it could not be, That she, Whom I adore so much, should so slight me, And cast my love behind.
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Blind Love Slight Thinking
Where dost thou careless lie, Buried in ease and sloth? Knowledge that sleeps, doth die; And this security, It is the common moth, That eats on wits and arts, and oft destroys them both.
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Art Common Lying Security Sleep
If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
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Illness Neurosis Sick
I know no disease of the soul but ignorance, a pernicious evil, the darkener of man’s life, the disturber of his reason, and common confounder of truth.
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Ignorance Men Science
For they have the authority of years, and out of their intermission do win to themselves a kind of grace-like newness. But the eldest of the present, and newest of the past Language, is the best.
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Intermission Newest Present Themselves
How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
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Fortune Practise Sports
Man and wife make one fool.
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Marriage Men Wife
Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.
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Past Winning Years
Forbear, you things That stand upon the pinnacles of state, To boast your slippery height! when you do fall, You dash yourselves in pieces, ne’er to rise: And he that lends you pity, is not wise.
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Boast Fall Pieces Wise
Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
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Passion Spiritual Understanding

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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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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