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Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.

Ben Jonson

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
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
Nor shall our cups make any guilty men; But at our parting, we will be, as when We innocently met.
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Cup Drinking Men
I do honor the very flea of his dog.
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Dog Hero Honor
The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
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Evil Hate Men Oppress
They, who know no evil, will suspect none.
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Evil Knows Suspect
Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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Fortune Men
Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
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Angry Concern Slander
If you succeed not, cast not away the quills yet, nor scratch the wainscot, beat not the poor desk, but bring all to the forge and file again; turn it new.
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Crafts Scratches Succeed
You are not now to think what’s best to do, As in beginnings, but what must be done, Being thus enter’d; and slip no advantage That may secure you. Let them call it mischief; When it is past, and prosper’d , ’twill be virtue.
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Mischief Past Virtue
The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
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Acknowledge Ass Devil
That old bald cheater, Time.
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Bald Cheater Old Time
Calumnies are answered best with silence.
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Advice Silence
Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
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Anarchy Drinking Thinking
Tis no sin love’s fruits to steal; But the sweet thefts to reveal; To be taken, to be seen, These have crimes accounted been.
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Fruit Sweet Taken
Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
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Faces Home House

Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.

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