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If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick

Ben Jonson

Follow a shadow, it still flies you, Seem to fly, it will pursue: So court a mistress, she denies you; Let her alone, she will court you. Say are not women truly, then, Styled but the shadows of us men?
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Men Mistress Shadow
I’ll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news.
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False Giving News True
Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
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Dream Hate Hatred
It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
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Giving Men Virtue
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
Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
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Faces Home House
Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.
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Affliction Person Prayer Wicked
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
I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
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Father Men Parent
Ambition, like a torrent, ne’er looks back; And is a swelling, and the last affection A high mind can put off; being both a rebel Unto the soul and reason, and enforceth All laws, all conscience, treads upon religion, and offereth violence to nature’s self.
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Ambition Conscience Law Rebel Self Soul
Guilt’s a terrible thing.
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Guilt Terrible Things
Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
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Beast Flattery Tyrant
The world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
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Conceited Fools Rome Two
The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
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Evil Hate Men Oppress
All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
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Little Wise World
The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.
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Birthday Praying Return

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