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They, who know no evil, will suspect none.

Ben Jonson

That I might live alone once with my gold! O, ’tis a sweet companion! kind and true: A man may trust it when his father cheats him, Brother, or friend, or wife. O wondrous pelf! That which makes all men false, is true itself.
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Alone Brother Companions Money Sweet
I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
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Glory Greed Wealth
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
Well, I will scourge those apes, And to these courteous eyes oppose a mirror, As large as is the stage whereon we act; Where they shall see the time’s deformity Anatomised in every nerve, and sinew, With constant courage, and contempt of fear.
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Act Apes Courage Eye Mirror Time
Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
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Lines Sweat Writing
Blueness doth express trueness.
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Color Trueness
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
The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
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Dignity Life Losing
Fear to do base, unworthy things is valor; if they be one to us, to suffer them is valor too.
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Courage Suffering Valor
No man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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Easily May Men Taught Wise
The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.
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Infinite Men Soul
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
Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.
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Folly Impudence Rudeness
Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
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Ambition Inspiration Looks
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
Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.
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Art Men Monsters

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