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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.

Ben Jonson

Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
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Clothes Countenance Wit
Calumnies are answered best with silence.
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Advice Silence
Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
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Art Enemy Ignorance
Nor for my peace will I go far, As wanderers do, that still do roam, But make my strengths, such as they are, Here in my bosom, and at home.
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Home Stills Wanderers
Men that talk of their own benefits are not believed to talk of them because they have done them, but to have done them because they might talk of them.
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Benefits Done Men
Sweet meat must have sour sauce.
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Meat Swans Sweet
How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
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Fortune Practise Sports
Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.
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Past Winning Years
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
Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.
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Beer Drink Wells
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
Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
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Leadership May Men
Fortune, that favors fools.
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Favors Fool Fortune
Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
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Relax Reputation Ruins
Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
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Frail Memories Mind
Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.
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Folly Impudence Rudeness

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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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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