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You learn nothing about someone by the way they win the fight, you learn everything about the way they lose and keep coming back.

Ben Jonson

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
Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
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Angry Concern Slander
The world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
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Conceited Fools Rome Two
Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
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Passion Spiritual Understanding
The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
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Acknowledge Ass Devil
Confound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
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Funny Humor Ideas
Nor shall our cups make any guilty men; But at our parting, we will be, as when We innocently met.
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Cup Drinking Men
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
Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast, Still to be powder’d, all perfum’d. Lady, it is to be presumed, Though art’s hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound.
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Art Causes Drest Near Sweet
That I might live alone once with my gold! O, ’tis a sweet companion! kind and true: A man may trust it when his father cheats him, Brother, or friend, or wife. O wondrous pelf! That which makes all men false, is true itself.
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Alone Brother Companions Money Sweet
He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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Art Fool Inspirational
Truth is man’s proper good, and the only immortal thing was given to our mortality to use.
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Men Truth Use
It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.
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Art Giving Lying
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
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
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

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