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God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man’s dearer than to himself.

Ben Jonson

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.
BEN JONSON

Art Eye Neglect Simplicity Sweet
Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
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Dream Hate Hatred
He was not of an age, but for all time!
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Age Time
Our whole life is like a play.
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Life Play Whole
I know no disease of the soul but ignorance, a pernicious evil, the darkener of man’s life, the disturber of his reason, and common confounder of truth.
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Ignorance Men Science
Indeed there’s a woundy luck in names.
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Indeed Luck Names Woundy
Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
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Death Good Man Men
How near to good is what is fair!
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Fairs Good Goodness Near
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
To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
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Change Men Want Welcome
In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
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Absence Hope Love Miss Sweet
For they have the authority of years, and out of their intermission do win to themselves a kind of grace-like newness. But the eldest of the present, and newest of the past Language, is the best.
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Intermission Newest Present Themselves
No simple word That shall be uttered at our mirthful board, Shall make us sad next morning; or affright The liberty that we’ll enjoy to-night.
BEN JONSON

Morning Regret Simple
Wine it is the milk of Venus, And the poet’s horse accounted: Ply it and you all are mounted.
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Horse Plies Wine
The two chief things that give a man reputation in counsel, are the opinion of his honesty, and the opinion of his wisdom; the authority of those two will persuade.
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Honesty Men Persuade Simple Two Wisdom
The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
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