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Prevent your day at morning.

Ben Jonson

Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
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Imperfect Light Opinion Things
Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
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Disease Talking
The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
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Men Money
Sweet meat must have sour sauce.
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Meat Swans Sweet
Now we are all fallen, youth from their fear, And age from that which bred it, good example.
BEN JONSON

Age Example Fallen Good Youth
Sweet Swan of Avon! What a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear.
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Sight Swans Sweet
My thoughts and I were of another world.
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Another World Thoughts
Nor use too swelling, or ill-sounded words . . . .
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Sounded Swelling Use Words
What excellent fools religion makes of men.
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Men Religion Religious
Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
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Faces Home House
Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
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Angry Concern Slander
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
Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.
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Looks Meaning Weigh
Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
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Beast Fats Mischief
Your highest female grace is silence.
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Female Grace Silence
Money never made any man rich, but his mind. He that can order himself to the law of nature, is not only without the sense, but the fear of poverty.
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Law Men Mind Order Sense

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