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Ben Jonson

The world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
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Conceited Fools Rome Two
Tell troth and shame the devil.
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Devil Shame Truth
Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!
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May Poetry War
Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
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Angry Concern Slander
Your highest female grace is silence.
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Female Grace Silence
Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.
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Cutting Men Whispering
To struggle when hope is banished! To live when life’s salt is gone! To dwell in a dream that’s vanished- To endure, and go calmly on!
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Dream Life Struggle Vanish
Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
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Anxiety Care Possession
[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.
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Conceited English Plain Play
Fortune, that favors fools.
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Favors Fool Fortune
Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
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Court Deny Mistress
Prevent your day at morning.
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Day Morning Prevent
I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
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Father Men Parent
Truth is man’s proper good, and the only immortal thing was given to our mortality to use.
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Men Truth Use
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
To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
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Change Men Want Welcome
He threatens many that hath injured one.
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Crime Injured Threaten
One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
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Character Trouble Women
There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
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Creeds Doctrine Good Waiting
How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
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Fortune Practise Sports
Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
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Hate Hatred Ignorant
True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
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Friendship Happiness Positive
Many might go to heaven with half the labour they go to hell, if they would venture their industry the right way.
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Half Heaven Venture
He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
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Honesty Vulgar
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
Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
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Faces Home House
Princes that would their people should do well Must at themselves begin, as at the head; For men, by their example, pattern out Their limitations, and regard of laws: A virtuous court a world to virtue draws.
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Example Law Men Patteren People

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