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Nor shall our cups make any guilty men; But at our parting, we will be, as when We innocently met.

Ben Jonson

He that is respectless in his courses oft sells his reputation at cheap market.
BEN JONSON

Courses Reputation Sells
Indeed there’s a woundy luck in names.
BEN JONSON

Indeed Luck Names Woundy
Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
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Faces Home House
Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.
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Guilt Guilty Shame
There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
BEN JONSON

Creeds Doctrine Good Waiting
Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
BEN JONSON

Passion Spiritual Understanding
Tell troth and shame the devil.
BEN JONSON

Devil Shame Truth
Fortune, that favors fools.
BEN JONSON

Favors Fool Fortune
It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
BEN JONSON

Giving Men Virtue
How near to good is what is fair!
BEN JONSON

Fairs Good Goodness Near
I have been at my book; and am now past the craggy paths of study, and come to the flowery plains of honour and reputation
BEN JONSON

Education Inspirational Past
He threatens many that hath injured one.
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Crime Injured Threaten
A good dog deserves a good bone.
BEN JONSON

Bones Canine Dog
Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast, Still to be powder’d, all perfum’d. Lady, it is to be presumed, Though art’s hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound.
BEN JONSON

Art Causes Drest Near Sweet
In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
BEN JONSON

Absence Hope Love Miss Sweet
Calumnies are answered best with silence.
BEN JONSON

Advice Silence

Nor shall our cups make any guilty men; But at our parting, we will be, as when We innocently met.

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