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Well, I will scourge those apes, And to these courteous eyes oppose a mirror, As large as is the stage whereon we act; Where they shall see the time’s deformity Anatomised in every nerve, and sinew, With constant courage, and contempt of fear.

Ben Jonson

There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
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Fear Hell No Prisoner
Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
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Beast Flattery Tyrant
Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
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Beast Fats Mischief
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
Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
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Frail Memories Mind
Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.
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Art Men Monsters
They, who know no evil, will suspect none.
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Evil Knows Suspect
Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
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Imperfect Light Opinion Things
The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
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Evil Hate Men Oppress
We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.
BEN JONSON

Fashion Quality Women
Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.
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Folly Impudence Rudeness
Now we are all fallen, youth from their fear, And age from that which bred it, good example.
BEN JONSON

Age Example Fallen Good Youth
To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.
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Long Pleasure Treasure
If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.
BEN JONSON

Art Being Poverty True
Well, I will scourge those apes, And to these courteous eyes oppose a mirror, As large as is the stage whereon we act; Where they shall see the time’s deformity Anatomised in every nerve, and sinew, With constant courage, and contempt of fear.
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Act Apes Courage Eye Mirror Time
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

Well, I will scourge those apes, And to these courteous eyes oppose a mirror, As large as is the stage whereon we act; Where they shall see the time’s deformity Anatomised in every nerve, and sinew, With constant courage, and contempt of fear.

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Well, I will scourge those apes, And to these courteous eyes oppose a mirror, As large as is the stage whereon we act; Where they shall see the time’s deformity Anatomised in every nerve, and sinew, With constant courage, and contempt of fear.

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