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Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .

Ben Jonson

Minds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause: ‘Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause.
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Applause Crowns Mind Virtue
Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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Force Free Nature Servile
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
God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man’s dearer than to himself.
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Men Strange Wrecks
The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
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Dignity Life Losing
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
Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
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Art Enemy Ignorance
Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
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Book Looks Reader
In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
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Absence Hope Love Miss Sweet
Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
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Lines Sweat Writing
There is no bounty to be showed to such As have real goodness: Bounty is A spice of virtue; and what virtuous act Can take effect on them that have no power Of equal habitude to apprehend it?
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Real Spices Virtue
He threatens many that hath injured one.
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Crime Injured Threaten
Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.
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Heart Hypocrisy Spread
I’ll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news.
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False Giving News True
We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.
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Fashion Quality Women
Let argument bear no unmusical sound.
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Argument Bears Sound

Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .

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