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All concord’s born of contraries.

Ben Jonson

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
He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
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Honesty Vulgar
True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
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Fine Melancholy Perfect Wit
Man and wife make one fool.
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Marriage Men Wife
If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.
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Art Being Poverty True
Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
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Leadership May Men
It is less dishonor to hear imperfectly than to speak imperfectly. The ears are excused; the understanding is not.
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Ears Speak Understanding
Queen and huntress, chaste and fair Now the sun is laid to sleep, Seated in thy silver chair, State in wonted manner keep: Hesperus entreats thy light Goddess, excellently bright.
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Chair Light Queens Seated Sleep
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
Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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Fortune Men
Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.
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Looks Meaning Weigh
… the best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle.
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Anchors Needs Sea
Tell troth and shame the devil.
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Devil Shame Truth
I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
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Glory Greed Wealth
Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
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Faces Home House
That old bald cheater, Time.
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Bald Cheater Old Time

All concord’s born of contraries.

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