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The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.

Ben Jonson

Many punishments sometimes, and in some cases, as much discredit a prince as many funerals a physician.
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Funeral Physicians Punishment
I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.
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Compassion Justice Weakness
As it is a great point of art, when our matter requires it, to enlarge and veer out all sail, so to take it in and contract it is of no less praise when the argument doth ask it.
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Art Ask Matter Praise Style
He that is respectless in his courses oft sells his reputation at cheap market.
BEN JONSON

Courses Reputation Sells
True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
BEN JONSON

Joy Speak Tongue
O! How vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do.
BEN JONSON

Fear Men Passion
Blueness doth express trueness.
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Color Trueness
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.
BEN JONSON

Alone Brother Companions Money Sweet
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.
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Morning Regret Simple
When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity.
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Enemy Grief Men
Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
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Imperfect Light Opinion Things
Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
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Mind Punishment Vices
Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
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Frail Memories Mind
My thoughts and I were of another world.
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Another World Thoughts
Poets are far rarer birds than kings.
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Bird Kings Poet
Tell troth and shame the devil.
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Devil Shame Truth

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