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

Ben Jonson

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
Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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Force Free Nature Servile
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
The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
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Evil Hate Men Oppress
It strikes! one, two, Three, four, five, six. Enough, enough, dear watch, Thy pulse hath beat enough. Now sleep and rest; Would thou could’st make the time to do so too; I’ll wind thee up no more.
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Enough Pulse Sleep Time Wind
Man and wife make one fool.
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Marriage Men Wife
The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.
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Infinite Men Soul
Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
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Art Enemy Ignorance
When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity.
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Enemy Grief Men
What excellent fools religion makes of men.
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Men Religion Religious
I know no disease of the soul but ignorance, a pernicious evil, the darkener of man’s life, the disturber of his reason, and common confounder of truth.
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Ignorance Men Science
He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
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Honesty Vulgar
The burnt child dreads the fire.
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Children Dread Fire
Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
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Mind Punishment Vices
They, who know no evil, will suspect none.
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Evil Knows Suspect
Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
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Beast Flattery Tyrant

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