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It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.

Ben Jonson

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.
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Blind Love Slight Thinking
In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
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Absence Hope Love Miss Sweet
Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
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Boys Mean Money
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
Minds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause: ‘Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause.
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Applause Crowns Mind Virtue
Silence in woman is like speech in man.
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Men Silence Speech
The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.
BEN JONSON

Birthday Praying Return
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
If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
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Illness Neurosis Sick
I have discovered that a famed familiarity in great ones is a note of certain usurpation on the less; for great and popular men feign themselves to be servants to others to make those slaves to them.
BEN JONSON

Men Popularity Slave
Let argument bear no unmusical sound.
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Argument Bears Sound
I do honor the very flea of his dog.
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Dog Hero Honor
It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
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Giving Men Virtue
He was not of an age, but for all time!
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Age Time
The way to rise is to obey and please.
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Please Success Way
Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.
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Beer Drink Wells

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