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Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.

Ben Jonson

All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
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Discourse Harsh Speech
Fortune, that favors fools.
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Favors Fool Fortune
The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
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Dignity Life Losing
And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow’d them with her odorous foot.
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Feet Flower Roots
Now we are all fallen, youth from their fear, And age from that which bred it, good example.
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Age Example Fallen Good Youth
Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
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Court Deny Mistress
In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
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Absence Hope Love Miss Sweet
If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
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Illness Neurosis Sick
Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!
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May Poetry War
My thoughts and I were of another world.
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Another World Thoughts
Many punishments sometimes, and in some cases, as much discredit a prince as many funerals a physician.
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Funeral Physicians Punishment
True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
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Friendship Happiness Positive
Aristotle was the first accurate critic and truest judge nay, the greatest philosopher the world ever had; for he noted the vices of all knowledges, in all creatures, and out of many men’s perfections in a science he formed still one Art.
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Art Judging Men
Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed That sets his doors wide open to a thief, And shows the felon where his treasure lies?
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Doors Judgment Lying Treasure
To struggle when hope is banished! To live when life’s salt is gone! To dwell in a dream that’s vanished- To endure, and go calmly on!
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Dream Life Struggle Vanish
A valiant man Ought not to undergo, or tempt a danger, But worthily, and by selected ways, He undertakes with reason, not by chance. His valor is the salt t’ his other virtues, They’re all unseason’d without it.
BEN JONSON

Men Salt Way

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