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Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.

Ben Jonson

Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.
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Cutting Men Whispering
We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.
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Fashion Quality Women
Where dost thou careless lie, Buried in ease and sloth? Knowledge that sleeps, doth die; And this security, It is the common moth, That eats on wits and arts, and oft destroys them both.
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Art Common Lying Security Sleep
God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man’s dearer than to himself.
BEN JONSON

Men Strange Wrecks
Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
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Hate Hatred Ignorant
A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
BEN JONSON

Good Loss Men Rise
Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
BEN JONSON

Frail Memories Mind
He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.
BEN JONSON

Glory Servant Virtue
Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
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Book Looks Reader
The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
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Evil Hate Men Oppress
Poor worms, they hiss at me, whilst I at home Can be contented to applaud myself, . . . with joy To see how plump my bags are and my barns.
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Home Joy
Hang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.
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Care Cat Sorrow
If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.
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Art Being Poverty True
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
Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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Fortune Men
Indeed there’s a woundy luck in names.
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Indeed Luck Names Woundy

Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.

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