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Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.

Ben Jonson

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
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
Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
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Faces Home House
A good poet’s made as well as born.
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Born Made Poet
A lily of a day Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be.
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Die Fall Flower Night Proportion
Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
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Anxiety Care Possession
Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
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Clothes Countenance Wit
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
Books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction.
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Book Faithful May
Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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Force Free Nature Servile
He that is respectless in his courses oft sells his reputation at cheap market.
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Courses Reputation Sells
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
It strikes! one, two, Three, four, five, six. Enough, enough, dear watch, Thy pulse hath beat enough. Now sleep and rest; Would thou could’st make the time to do so too; I’ll wind thee up no more.
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Enough Pulse Sleep Time Wind
Sweet Swan of Avon! What a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear.
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Sight Swans Sweet
Calumnies are answered best with silence.
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Advice Silence

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