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Ben Jonson

The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.
BEN JONSON

Men Smoking
Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
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Passion Spiritual Understanding
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
A good poet’s made as well as born.
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Born Made Poet
Whosoever loves not picture is injurious to truth, and all the wisdom of poetry. Picture is the invention of heaven, the most ancient and most akin to nature. It is itself a silent work, and always one and the same habit.
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Ancient Heaven Silent
Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
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Imperfect Light Opinion Things
Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
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Disease Talking
Your highest female grace is silence.
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Female Grace Silence
The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
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Acknowledge Ass Devil
For he that once is good, is ever great.
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Good Greatness Once
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
Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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Force Free Nature Servile
That I might live alone once with my gold! O, ’tis a sweet companion! kind and true: A man may trust it when his father cheats him, Brother, or friend, or wife. O wondrous pelf! That which makes all men false, is true itself.
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Alone Brother Companions Money Sweet
Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
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Beast Flattery Tyrant
O! How vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do.
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Fear Men Passion
Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!
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Age Delight Soul Wonder

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