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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

There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
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Fear Hell No Prisoner
Calumnies are answered best with silence.
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Advice Silence
Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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Force Free Nature Servile
Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star.
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Fall Love Stars
The voice so sweet, the words so fair, As some soft chime had stroked the air; And though the sound had parted thence, Still left an echo in the sense.
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Air Echoes Parted Sweet Thence
Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.
BEN JONSON

Good Time Illustrate Men Stars
[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.
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Conceited English Plain Play
Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.
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Heart Hypocrisy Spread
Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
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Death Good Man Men
Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.
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Beer Drink Wells
Hell itself must yield to industry.
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Hell Industry Yield
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
Man and wife make one fool.
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Marriage Men Wife
Honor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.
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Hate Honor Men Time
The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.
BEN JONSON

Birthday Praying Return
How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
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Fortune Practise Sports

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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