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Ben Jonson

Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace Robes loosely flowing, hair as free Such sweet neglect more taketh me Than all the adulteries of art: They strike mine eyes, but not my heart.
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Art Eye Neglect Simplicity Sweet
Let argument bear no unmusical sound.
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Argument Bears Sound
There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
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Fear Hell No Prisoner
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.
BEN JONSON

Alone Brother Companions Money Sweet
I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
BEN JONSON

Glory Greed Wealth
Language most shows a man; speak that I may see thee; it springs out of the most retired and inmost parts of us, and is the image of the parent of it, the mind. No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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Glasses Men Spring
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
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
Many punishments sometimes, and in some cases, as much discredit a prince as many funerals a physician.
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Funeral Physicians Punishment
Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
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Art Enemy Ignorance
It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.
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Art Giving Lying
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
Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
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Passion Spiritual Understanding
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
All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
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Little Wise World
How ready is heaven to those that pray!
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Heaven Prayer Praying

What excellent fools religion makes of men.

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