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Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.

Ben Jonson

The voice so sweet, the words so fair, As some soft chime had stroked the air; And though the sound had parted thence, Still left an echo in the sense.
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Air Echoes Parted Sweet Thence
A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
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Good Loss Men Rise
The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
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Men Money
Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
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Death Good Man Men
Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.
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Looks Meaning Weigh
In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
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Absence Hope Love Miss Sweet
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
He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
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Honesty Vulgar
I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.
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Compassion Justice Weakness
All concord’s born of contraries.
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Born Contradiction Contrary
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
It is the highest of earthly honors to be descended from the great and good. They alone cry out against a noble ancestry who have none of their own.
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Ancestry Honor Noble
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
The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
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Evil Hate Men Oppress
Man and wife make one fool.
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Marriage Men Wife
My thoughts and I were of another world.
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Another World Thoughts

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