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Ben Jonson

In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
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June Life Perfect Summer
The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
BEN JONSON

Orators Oratory Poet
That I might live alone once with my gold! O, ’tis a sweet companion! kind and true: A man may trust it when his father cheats him, Brother, or friend, or wife. O wondrous pelf! That which makes all men false, is true itself.
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Alone Brother Companions Money Sweet
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
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
And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow’d them with her odorous foot.
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Feet Flower Roots
A good man will avoid the spot of any sin. The very aspersion is grievous, which makes him choose his way in his life, as he would in his journey.
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Aspersion Choose Good Journey Men
Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
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Angry Concern Slander
For he that once is good, is ever great.
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Good Greatness Once
Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
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Clothes Countenance Wit
How near to good is what is fair!
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Fairs Good Goodness Near
Many punishments sometimes, and in some cases, as much discredit a prince as many funerals a physician.
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Funeral Physicians Punishment
Let argument bear no unmusical sound.
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Argument Bears Sound
Poets are far rarer birds than kings.
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Bird Kings Poet
Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
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Court Deny Mistress
It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.
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Art Giving Lying

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