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A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.

Ben Jonson

Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I’ll not look for wine.
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Food Romantic Wine
It is a note Of upstart greatness to observe and watch For these poor trifles, which the noble mind Neglects and scorns.
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Greatness Mind Scorn Watches
Our whole life is like a play.
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Life Play Whole
Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.
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Disease Mean Music
How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
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Fortune Practise Sports
Follow a shadow, it still flies you, Seem to fly, it will pursue: So court a mistress, she denies you; Let her alone, she will court you. Say are not women truly, then, Styled but the shadows of us men?
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Men Mistress Shadow
Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.
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Envy Honor Two
It is less dishonor to hear imperfectly than to speak imperfectly. The ears are excused; the understanding is not.
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Ears Speak Understanding
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
If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.
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Art Being Poverty True
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
The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
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Dignity Life Losing
It is as great a spite to be praised in the wrong place, and by a wrong person, as can be done to a noble nature.
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Done Noble Person Wrong
All concord’s born of contraries.
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Born Contradiction Contrary
Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.
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Art Men Monsters
He that is respectless in his courses oft sells his reputation at cheap market.
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Courses Reputation Sells

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