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I am beholden to calumny, that she hath so endeavored to belie me.-It shall make me set a surer guard on myself, and keep a better watch upon my actions.

Ben Jonson

Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
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Anarchy Drinking Thinking
Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
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Mind Punishment Vices
Well, I will scourge those apes, And to these courteous eyes oppose a mirror, As large as is the stage whereon we act; Where they shall see the time’s deformity Anatomised in every nerve, and sinew, With constant courage, and contempt of fear.
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Act Apes Courage Eye Mirror Time
Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
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Imperfect Light Opinion Things
He threatens many that hath injured one.
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Crime Injured Threaten
Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.
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Envy Honor Two
The burnt child dreads the fire.
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Children Dread Fire
Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.
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Praise Strikes Strokes
God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man’s dearer than to himself.
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Men Strange Wrecks
Poor worms, they hiss at me, whilst I at home Can be contented to applaud myself, . . . with joy To see how plump my bags are and my barns.
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Home Joy
How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
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Fortune Practise Sports
Indeed there’s a woundy luck in names.
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Indeed Luck Names Woundy
The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
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Evil Hate Men Oppress
Freedom doth with degree dispense.
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Degree Dispense Freedom
Tis no sin love’s fruits to steal; But the sweet thefts to reveal; To be taken, to be seen, These have crimes accounted been.
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Fruit Sweet Taken
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

I am beholden to calumny, that she hath so endeavored to belie me.-It shall make me set a surer guard on myself, and keep a better watch upon my actions.

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I am beholden to calumny, that she hath so endeavored to belie me.-It shall make me set a surer guard on myself, and keep a better watch upon my actions.

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