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

Ben Jonson

Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
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Anxiety Care Possession
Prevent your day at morning.
BEN JONSON

Day Morning Prevent
The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.
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Men Smoking
A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.
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Gratitude Men Needs
Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.
BEN JONSON

Past Winning Years
One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
BEN JONSON

Character Trouble Women
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.
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Men Salt Way
O! How vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do.
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Fear Men Passion
Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
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Beast Fats Mischief
There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
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Creeds Doctrine Good Waiting
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
I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never plotted out a line. My answer hath been, would he had blotted a thousand.
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Answer Lines Mention Penend Player Writing
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
Money never made any man rich, but his mind. He that can order himself to the law of nature, is not only without the sense, but the fear of poverty.
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Law Men Mind Order Sense
Calumnies are answered best with silence.
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Advice Silence
Honor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.
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Hate Honor Men Time

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