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All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome

Ben Jonson

Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.
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Art Men Monsters
One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
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Character Trouble Women
Rich apparel has strange virtues; it makes him that hath it without means esteemed for an excellent wit; he that enjoys it with means puts the world in remembrance of his means.
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Mean Remembrance Rich World
Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
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Angry Concern Slander
A good poet’s made as well as born.
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Born Made Poet
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
Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.
BEN JONSON

Heart Hypocrisy Spread
It strikes! one, two, Three, four, five, six. Enough, enough, dear watch, Thy pulse hath beat enough. Now sleep and rest; Would thou could’st make the time to do so too; I’ll wind thee up no more.
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Enough Pulse Sleep Time Wind
I’ll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news.
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False Giving News True
Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
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Lines Sweat Writing
I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never plotted out a line. My answer hath been, would he had blotted a thousand.
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Answer Lines Mention Penend Player Writing
The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
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Orators Oratory Poet
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
… the best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle.
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Anchors Needs Sea
Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.
BEN JONSON

Disease Mean Music
When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity.
BEN JONSON

Enemy Grief Men

All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome

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