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I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.

Ben Jonson

Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!
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May Poetry War
The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
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Evil Hate Men Oppress
Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.
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Folly Impudence Rudeness
Many might go to heaven with half the labour they go to hell, if they would venture their industry the right way.
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Half Heaven Venture
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.
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Art Eye Neglect Simplicity Sweet
He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
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Honesty Vulgar
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
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
Very few men are wise by their own council, or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself, had a fool for a master.
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Men Teaching Wise
The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.
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Men Smoking
It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
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Giving Men Virtue
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
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
Ods me I marle what pleasure or felicity they have in taking their roguish tobacco. It is good for nothing but to choke a man, and fill him full of smoke and embers.
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Cigarette Smoke Men Smoking
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
Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
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Imperfect Light Opinion Things

I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.

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