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There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.

Ben Jonson

O! How vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do.
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Fear Men Passion
Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
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Relax Reputation Ruins
Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast, Still to be powder’d, all perfum’d. Lady, it is to be presumed, Though art’s hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound.
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Art Causes Drest Near Sweet
Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.
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Folly Impudence Rudeness
One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
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Character Trouble Women
My thoughts and I were of another world.
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Another World Thoughts
Prevent your day at morning.
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Day Morning Prevent
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?
BEN JONSON

Real Spices Virtue
… the best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle.
BEN JONSON

Anchors Needs Sea
Ods me I marle what pleasure or felicity they have in taking their roguish tobacco. It is good for nothing but to choke a man, and fill him full of smoke and embers.
BEN JONSON

Cigarette Smoke Men Smoking
Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
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Beast Fats Mischief
Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
BEN JONSON

Dream Hate Hatred
A lily of a day Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be.
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Die Fall Flower Night Proportion
Our whole life is like a play.
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Life Play Whole
I feel my griefs too, and there scarce is ground Upon my flesh t’inflict another wound. Yet dare I not complain, or wish for death With holy Paul; lest it be thought the breath Of discontent; or that these prayers be For weariness of life, not love of thee.
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Another Grief Prayer Weariness Wish Wound
If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
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Illness Neurosis Sick

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