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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.

Ben Jonson

Fear to do base, unworthy things is valor; if they be one to us, to suffer them is valor too.
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Courage Suffering Valor
Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.
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Past Winning Years
Poets are far rarer birds than kings.
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Bird Kings Poet
Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
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Beast Fats Mischief
Guilt’s a terrible thing.
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Guilt Terrible Things
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
You are not now to think what’s best to do, As in beginnings, but what must be done, Being thus enter’d; and slip no advantage That may secure you. Let them call it mischief; When it is past, and prosper’d , ’twill be virtue.
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Mischief Past Virtue
True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
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Joy Speak Tongue
Ods me I marle what pleasure or felicity they have in taking their roguish tobacco. It is good for nothing but to choke a man, and fill him full of smoke and embers.
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Cigarette Smoke Men Smoking
Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.
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Good Time Illustrate Men Stars
Indeed there’s a woundy luck in names.
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Indeed Luck Names Woundy
A good poet’s made as well as born.
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Born Made Poet
Calumnies are answered best with silence.
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Advice Silence
They, who know no evil, will suspect none.
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Evil Knows Suspect
Confound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
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Funny Humor Ideas
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.
BEN JONSON

Blind Love Slight Thinking

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