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Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I’ll not look for wine.

Ben Jonson

To struggle when hope is banished! To live when life’s salt is gone! To dwell in a dream that’s vanished- To endure, and go calmly on!
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Dream Life Struggle Vanish
All concord’s born of contraries.
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Born Contradiction Contrary
Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.
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Folly Impudence Rudeness
Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
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Leadership May Men
There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
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Creeds Doctrine Good Waiting
Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed That sets his doors wide open to a thief, And shows the felon where his treasure lies?
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Doors Judgment Lying Treasure
Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
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Mind Punishment Vices
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
Truth is man’s proper good, and the only immortal thing was given to our mortality to use.
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Men Truth Use
The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
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Men Money
Calumnies are answered best with silence.
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Advice Silence
Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
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Faces Home House
Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
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Ambition Inspiration Looks
Indeed there’s a woundy luck in names.
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Indeed Luck Names Woundy
Fortune, that favors fools.
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Favors Fool Fortune
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

Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I’ll not look for wine.

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