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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

How ready is heaven to those that pray!
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Heaven Prayer Praying
A good man will avoid the spot of any sin. The very aspersion is grievous, which makes him choose his way in his life, as he would in his journey.
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Aspersion Choose Good Journey Men
Tell troth and shame the devil.
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Devil Shame Truth
A good poet’s made as well as born.
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Born Made Poet
A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
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Good Loss Men Rise
Hang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.
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Care Cat Sorrow
Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.
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Beer Drink Wells
I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.
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Affected Eloquence Foolish
If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
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Illness Neurosis Sick
It is the highest of earthly honors to be descended from the great and good. They alone cry out against a noble ancestry who have none of their own.
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Ancestry Honor Noble
Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
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Faces Home House
Our whole life is like a play.
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Life Play Whole
Blueness doth express trueness.
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Color Trueness
For they have the authority of years, and out of their intermission do win to themselves a kind of grace-like newness. But the eldest of the present, and newest of the past Language, is the best.
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Intermission Newest Present Themselves
Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.
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Affliction Person Prayer Wicked
Whosoever loves not picture is injurious to truth, and all the wisdom of poetry. Picture is the invention of heaven, the most ancient and most akin to nature. It is itself a silent work, and always one and the same habit.
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Ancient Heaven Silent

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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