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Calumnies are answered best with silence.

Ben Jonson

Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
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Dream Hate Hatred
Honor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.
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Hate Honor Men Time
A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.
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Gratitude Men Needs
Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
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Faces Home House
Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
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Disease Talking
One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
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Character Trouble Women
[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.
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Conceited English Plain Play
Let argument bear no unmusical sound.
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Argument Bears Sound
The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.
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Men Smoking
The voice so sweet, the words so fair, As some soft chime had stroked the air; And though the sound had parted thence, Still left an echo in the sense.
BEN JONSON

Air Echoes Parted Sweet Thence
It is a note Of upstart greatness to observe and watch For these poor trifles, which the noble mind Neglects and scorns.
BEN JONSON

Greatness Mind Scorn Watches
Your highest female grace is silence.
BEN JONSON

Female Grace Silence
The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
BEN JONSON

Evil Hate Men Oppress
He threatens many that hath injured one.
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Crime Injured Threaten
Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.
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Art Men Monsters
Whosoever loves not picture is injurious to truth, and all the wisdom of poetry. Picture is the invention of heaven, the most ancient and most akin to nature. It is itself a silent work, and always one and the same habit.
BEN JONSON

Ancient Heaven Silent

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