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Ods me I marle what pleasure or felicity they have in taking their roguish tobacco. It is good for nothing but to choke a man, and fill him full of smoke and embers.

Ben Jonson

Hang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.
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Care Cat Sorrow
Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
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Lines Sweat Writing
Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.
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Good Man Heaven Men
What excellent fools religion makes of men.
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Men Religion Religious
Follow a shadow, it still flies you, Seem to fly, it will pursue: So court a mistress, she denies you; Let her alone, she will court you. Say are not women truly, then, Styled but the shadows of us men?
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Men Mistress Shadow
Wine it is the milk of Venus, And the poet’s horse accounted: Ply it and you all are mounted.
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Horse Plies Wine
The world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
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Conceited Fools Rome Two
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.
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Alone Brother Companions Money Sweet
To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.
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Long Pleasure Treasure
Man and wife make one fool.
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Marriage Men Wife
Peace is never more than one thought away.
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Away Harmony More Peace
It is a note Of upstart greatness to observe and watch For these poor trifles, which the noble mind Neglects and scorns.
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Greatness Mind Scorn Watches
Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
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Court Deny Mistress
He was not of an age, but for all time!
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Age Time
Sweet Swan of Avon! What a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear.
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Sight Swans Sweet
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

Ods me I marle what pleasure or felicity they have in taking their roguish tobacco. It is good for nothing but to choke a man, and fill him full of smoke and embers.

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Ods me I marle what pleasure or felicity they have in taking their roguish tobacco. It is good for nothing but to choke a man, and fill him full of smoke and embers.

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