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Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.

Ben Jonson

Tis no sin love’s fruits to steal; But the sweet thefts to reveal; To be taken, to be seen, These have crimes accounted been.
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Fruit Sweet Taken
Fortune, that favors fools.
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Favors Fool Fortune
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
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
Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
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Beast Fats Mischief
Drink today, and drown all sorrow; You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow; Best, while you have it, use your breath; There is no drinking after death.
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Drinking Sorrow Use
Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
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Anarchy Drinking Thinking
Books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction.
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Book Faithful May
I now think, Love is rather deaf, than blind, For else it could not be, That she, Whom I adore so much, should so slight me, And cast my love behind.
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Blind Love Slight Thinking
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
Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
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Book Looks Reader
Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
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Passion Spiritual Understanding
Sweet Swan of Avon! What a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear.
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Sight Swans Sweet
A good poet’s made as well as born.
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Born Made Poet
Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.
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Heart Hypocrisy Spread
I have discovered that a famed familiarity in great ones is a note of certain usurpation on the less; for great and popular men feign themselves to be servants to others to make those slaves to them.
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Men Popularity Slave

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