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Minds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause: ‘Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause.

Ben Jonson

Confound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
BEN JONSON

Funny Humor Ideas
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
Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace Robes loosely flowing, hair as free Such sweet neglect more taketh me Than all the adulteries of art: They strike mine eyes, but not my heart.
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Art Eye Neglect Simplicity Sweet
Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
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Faces Home House
Men that talk of their own benefits are not believed to talk of them because they have done them, but to have done them because they might talk of them.
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Benefits Done Men
All concord’s born of contraries.
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Born Contradiction Contrary
All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
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Discourse Harsh Speech
Guilt’s a terrible thing.
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Guilt Terrible Things
You are not now to think what’s best to do, As in beginnings, but what must be done, Being thus enter’d; and slip no advantage That may secure you. Let them call it mischief; When it is past, and prosper’d , ’twill be virtue.
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Mischief Past Virtue
Tell troth and shame the devil.
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Devil Shame Truth
There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
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Creeds Doctrine Good Waiting
There is no bounty to be showed to such As have real goodness: Bounty is A spice of virtue; and what virtuous act Can take effect on them that have no power Of equal habitude to apprehend it?
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Real Spices Virtue
Greatness of name, in the father, ofttimes helps not forth, but overwhelms the son: They stand too near one another. The shadow kills the growth.
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Father Greatness Son
Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
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Anarchy Drinking Thinking
My thoughts and I were of another world.
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Another World Thoughts
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

Minds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause: ‘Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause.

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