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The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.

Ben Jonson

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
Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
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Beast Fats Mischief
Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
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Frail Memories Mind
For they have the authority of years, and out of their intermission do win to themselves a kind of grace-like newness. But the eldest of the present, and newest of the past Language, is the best.
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Intermission Newest Present Themselves
There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
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Creeds Doctrine Good Waiting
Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
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Anarchy Drinking Thinking
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
Now we are all fallen, youth from their fear, And age from that which bred it, good example.
BEN JONSON

Age Example Fallen Good Youth
The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.
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Men Smoking
I do honor the very flea of his dog.
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Dog Hero Honor
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
Hell itself must yield to industry.
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Hell Industry Yield
Prevent your day at morning.
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Day Morning Prevent
All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
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Little Wise World
A good dog deserves a good bone.
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Bones Canine Dog
The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
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Acknowledge Ass Devil

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