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[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.

Ben Jonson

Drink today, and drown all sorrow; You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow; Best, while you have it, use your breath; There is no drinking after death.
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Drinking Sorrow Use
Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
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Ambition Inspiration Looks
Princes that would their people should do well Must at themselves begin, as at the head; For men, by their example, pattern out Their limitations, and regard of laws: A virtuous court a world to virtue draws.
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Example Law Men Patteren People
A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pestilence, it doth infect the houses of the brain till not a thought, or motion, in the mind, be free from the black poison of suspect.
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Black Brain House
Many punishments sometimes, and in some cases, as much discredit a prince as many funerals a physician.
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Funeral Physicians Punishment
Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.
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Art Men Monsters
What excellent fools religion makes of men.
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Men Religion Religious
Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
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Passion Spiritual Understanding
A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
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Good Loss Men Rise
My thoughts and I were of another world.
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Another World Thoughts
A good poet’s made as well as born.
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Born Made Poet
Success hath made me wanton.
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Hath Made Success Wanton
Prevent your day at morning.
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Day Morning Prevent
Aristotle was the first accurate critic and truest judge nay, the greatest philosopher the world ever had; for he noted the vices of all knowledges, in all creatures, and out of many men’s perfections in a science he formed still one Art.
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Art Judging Men
Sweet Swan of Avon! What a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear.
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Sight Swans Sweet
A valiant man Ought not to undergo, or tempt a danger, But worthily, and by selected ways, He undertakes with reason, not by chance. His valor is the salt t’ his other virtues, They’re all unseason’d without it.
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Men Salt Way
Silence in woman is like speech in man.
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Men Silence Speech
It holds for good polity ever, to have that outwardly in vilest estimation, which inwardly is most dear to us.
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Dear Estimation Hypocrisy
True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
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Fine Melancholy Perfect Wit
Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.
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Affliction Person Prayer Wicked
The world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
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Conceited Fools Rome Two
Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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Fortune Men
Nor for my peace will I go far, As wanderers do, that still do roam, But make my strengths, such as they are, Here in my bosom, and at home.
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Home Stills Wanderers
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
[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.
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Conceited English Plain Play
I have no urns, no dusty monuments; No broken images of ancestors, Wanting an ear, or nose; no forged tales Of long descents, to boast false honors from.
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Broken Honor Long
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

[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.

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