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As it is a great point of art, when our matter requires it, to enlarge and veer out all sail, so to take it in and contract it is of no less praise when the argument doth ask it.

Ben Jonson

A good man will avoid the spot of any sin. The very aspersion is grievous, which makes him choose his way in his life, as he would in his journey.
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Aspersion Choose Good Journey Men
Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed That sets his doors wide open to a thief, And shows the felon where his treasure lies?
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Doors Judgment Lying Treasure
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
It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.
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Art Giving Lying
If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
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Illness Neurosis Sick
Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
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Disease Talking
Blueness doth express trueness.
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Color Trueness
What excellent fools religion makes of men.
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Men Religion Religious
I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
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Glory Greed Wealth
Ready writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing.
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Good Ready Writing
Prevent your day at morning.
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Day Morning Prevent
Very few men are wise by their own council, or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself, had a fool for a master.
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Men Teaching Wise
Nothing is more short-lived than pride.
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Live Pride Short
I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
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Father Men Parent
You learn nothing about someone by the way they win the fight, you learn everything about the way they lose and keep coming back.
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Art Fighting Winning
Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
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Beast Flattery Tyrant
Silence in woman is like speech in man.
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Men Silence Speech
No man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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Easily May Men Taught Wise
They, who know no evil, will suspect none.
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Evil Knows Suspect
The two chief things that give a man reputation in counsel, are the opinion of his honesty, and the opinion of his wisdom; the authority of those two will persuade.
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Honesty Men Persuade Simple Two Wisdom
Success hath made me wanton.
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Hath Made Success Wanton
Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
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Book Looks Reader
Tell troth and shame the devil.
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Devil Shame Truth
He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
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Honesty Vulgar
Freedom doth with degree dispense.
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Degree Dispense Freedom
Indeed there’s a woundy luck in names.
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Indeed Luck Names Woundy
I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.
BEN JONSON

Compassion Justice Weakness

As it is a great point of art, when our matter requires it, to enlarge and veer out all sail, so to take it in and contract it is of no less praise when the argument doth ask it.

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As it is a great point of art, when our matter requires it, to enlarge and veer out all sail, so to take it in and contract it is of no less praise when the argument doth ask it.

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