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Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.

Ben Jonson

Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
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Court Deny Mistress
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
Language most shows a man; speak that I may see thee; it springs out of the most retired and inmost parts of us, and is the image of the parent of it, the mind. No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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Glasses Men Spring
Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
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Disease Talking
If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
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Illness Neurosis Sick
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
Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
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Passion Spiritual Understanding
He threatens many that hath injured one.
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Crime Injured Threaten
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
One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
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Character Trouble Women
Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!
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May Poetry War
A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.
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Gratitude Men Needs
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
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
If men will impartially, and not asquint, look toward the offices and function of a poet, they will easily conclude to themselves the impossibility of any man’s being a good poet without first being a good man.
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Good Man Men Office
Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
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Lines Sweat Writing

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