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Ods me I marle what pleasure or felicity they have in taking their roguish tobacco. It is good for nothing but to choke a man, and fill him full of smoke and embers.

Ben Jonson

As it is a great point of art, when our matter requires it, to enlarge and veer out all sail, so to take it in and contract it is of no less praise when the argument doth ask it.
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Art Ask Matter Praise Style
The way to rise is to obey and please.
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Please Success Way
Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
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Faces Home House
The world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
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Conceited Fools Rome Two
[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.
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Conceited English Plain Play
Fortune, that favors fools.
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Favors Fool Fortune
Men that talk of their own benefits are not believed to talk of them because they have done them, but to have done them because they might talk of them.
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Benefits Done Men
Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.
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Cutting Men Whispering
The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
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Acknowledge Ass Devil
A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pestilence, it doth infect the houses of the brain till not a thought, or motion, in the mind, be free from the black poison of suspect.
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Black Brain House
Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
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Passion Spiritual Understanding
Money never made any man rich, but his mind. He that can order himself to the law of nature, is not only without the sense, but the fear of poverty.
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Law Men Mind Order Sense
Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
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Imperfect Light Opinion Things
Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.
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Affliction Person Prayer Wicked
If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
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Illness Neurosis Sick
Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
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Dream Hate Hatred

Ods me I marle what pleasure or felicity they have in taking their roguish tobacco. It is good for nothing but to choke a man, and fill him full of smoke and embers.

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