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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

Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
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Angry Concern Slander
For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries: to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of his own style.
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Exercise Men Writing
He was not of an age, but for all time!
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Age Time
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
Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
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Death Good Man Men
A valiant man Ought not to undergo, or tempt a danger, But worthily, and by selected ways, He undertakes with reason, not by chance. His valor is the salt t’ his other virtues, They’re all unseason’d without it.
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Men Salt Way
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
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
Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
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Frail Memories Mind
True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
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Joy Speak Tongue
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
Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
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Clothes Countenance Wit
O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
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Forget Sun Time
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
The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.
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Infinite Men Soul
Rich apparel has strange virtues; it makes him that hath it without means esteemed for an excellent wit; he that enjoys it with means puts the world in remembrance of his means.
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Mean Remembrance Rich World

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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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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