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Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.

Ben Jonson

The voice so sweet, the words so fair, As some soft chime had stroked the air; And though the sound had parted thence, Still left an echo in the sense.
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Air Echoes Parted Sweet Thence
Blueness doth express trueness.
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Color Trueness
Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
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Faces Home House
Confound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
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Funny Humor Ideas
Tell troth and shame the devil.
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Devil Shame Truth
He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.
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Glory Servant Virtue
It holds for good polity ever, to have that outwardly in vilest estimation, which inwardly is most dear to us.
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Dear Estimation Hypocrisy
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
That old bald cheater, Time.
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Bald Cheater Old Time
Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
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Angry Concern Slander
How ready is heaven to those that pray!
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Heaven Prayer Praying
The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.
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Men Smoking
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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Food Romantic Wine
Poets are far rarer birds than kings.
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Bird Kings Poet
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
[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.
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Conceited English Plain Play

Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.

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