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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
Nor shall our cups make any guilty men; But at our parting, we will be, as when We innocently met.
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Cup Drinking Men
What excellent fools religion makes of men.
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Men Religion Religious
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
I do honor the very flea of his dog.
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Dog Hero Honor
Books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction.
BEN JONSON

Book Faithful May
It is as great a spite to be praised in the wrong place, and by a wrong person, as can be done to a noble nature.
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Done Noble Person Wrong
[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.
BEN JONSON

Conceited English Plain Play
Let argument bear no unmusical sound.
BEN JONSON

Argument Bears Sound
All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
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Little Wise World
No man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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Easily May Men Taught Wise
How ready is heaven to those that pray!
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Heaven Prayer Praying
A good poet’s made as well as born.
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Born Made Poet
Your highest female grace is silence.
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Female Grace Silence
A good king is a public servant.
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Good King Kings Servant
There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
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Fear Hell No Prisoner

He threatens many that hath injured one.

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