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Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink

Ben Jonson

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?
BEN JONSON

Real Spices Virtue
Follow a shadow, it still flies you, Seem to fly, it will pursue: So court a mistress, she denies you; Let her alone, she will court you. Say are not women truly, then, Styled but the shadows of us men?
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Men Mistress Shadow
It is less dishonor to hear imperfectly than to speak imperfectly. The ears are excused; the understanding is not.
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Ears Speak Understanding
The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
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Acknowledge Ass Devil
I do honor the very flea of his dog.
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Dog Hero Honor
When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity.
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Enemy Grief Men
Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.
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Guilt Guilty Shame
Sweet Swan of Avon! What a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear.
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Sight Swans Sweet
It is the highest of earthly honors to be descended from the great and good. They alone cry out against a noble ancestry who have none of their own.
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Ancestry Honor Noble
Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
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Death Good Man Men
Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
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Ambition Inspiration Looks
Hell itself must yield to industry.
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Hell Industry Yield
Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.
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Disease Mean Music
Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.
BEN JONSON

Past Winning Years
Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.
BEN JONSON

Praise Strikes Strokes
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.
BEN JONSON

Benefits Done Men

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