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Your highest female grace is silence.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson How near to good is what is fair!
Ben JonsonBen Jonson And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow’d them with her odorous foot.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson You learn nothing about someone by the way they win the fight, you learn everything about the way they lose and keep coming back.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man’s dearer than to himself.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
Ben JonsonBen Jonson It is as great a spite to be praised in the wrong place, and by a wrong person, as can be done to a noble nature.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson I have no urns, no dusty monuments; No broken images of ancestors, Wanting an ear, or nose; no forged tales Of long descents, to boast false honors from.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson
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The more you suffer, the more you awaken.
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Ana SoulfulAna Soulful The right person will never get tired of you.
Sophie SmithSophie Smith You thought it wouldn’t live again. But it will live again.
Carisa DownsCarisa Downs The world is not allowed to make a meal of you, girl. It is there for your consuming.
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Aaron BellAaron Bell And you have fast become my weakness, even as you remain my source of strength.
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Acting for me was an escape and it wasn’t until Smoke Signals that made me realize that acting is a personal development and challenge to grow.
Adam BeachAdam Beach Made with Pencils is grounded in the creativity of a few, propelled by the financial support of many, and most importantly, it’s empowering generations to come.
Adam BraunAdam Braun Lets not focus on saving a nickel… lets focus on making a buck.
Adam CarollaAdam Carolla The greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you
Abraham VergheseAbraham Verghese That story hit me right, man. I know no guy ever made me feel as good as an audience. I’m really far into this now, really committed.
Janis JoplinJanis Joplin God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
Abraham CowleyAbraham Cowley It was not sleep that made him nod, he said, But too great weight and largeness of his head.
Abraham CowleyAbraham Cowley The liberty of a private man, in being master of his own time and actions, as far as may consist with the laws of God and of his country.
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