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No simple word That shall be uttered at our mirthful board, Shall make us sad next morning; or affright The liberty that we’ll enjoy to-night.

Ben Jonson

Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.
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Looks Meaning Weigh
Very few men are wise by their own council, or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself, had a fool for a master.
BEN JONSON

Men Teaching Wise
I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never plotted out a line. My answer hath been, would he had blotted a thousand.
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Answer Lines Mention Penend Player Writing
What excellent fools religion makes of men.
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Men Religion Religious
Princes that would their people should do well Must at themselves begin, as at the head; For men, by their example, pattern out Their limitations, and regard of laws: A virtuous court a world to virtue draws.
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Example Law Men Patteren People
Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.
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Good Time Illustrate Men Stars
The world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
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Conceited Fools Rome Two
It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
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Giving Men Virtue
The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.
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Men Smoking
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?
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Real Spices Virtue
Ready writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing.
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Good Ready Writing
That old bald cheater, Time.
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Bald Cheater Old 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
The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
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Acknowledge Ass Devil
The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
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Men Money
Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!
BEN JONSON

May Poetry War

No simple word That shall be uttered at our mirthful board, Shall make us sad next morning; or affright The liberty that we’ll enjoy to-night.

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No simple word That shall be uttered at our mirthful board, Shall make us sad next morning; or affright The liberty that we’ll enjoy to-night.

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