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Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .

Ben Jonson

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
[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.
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Conceited English Plain Play
All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
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Discourse Harsh Speech
I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
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Father Men Parent
Ods me I marle what pleasure or felicity they have in taking their roguish tobacco. It is good for nothing but to choke a man, and fill him full of smoke and embers.
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Cigarette Smoke Men Smoking
All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
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Little Wise World
It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
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Giving Men Virtue
A valiant man Ought not to undergo, or tempt a danger, But worthily, and by selected ways, He undertakes with reason, not by chance. His valor is the salt t’ his other virtues, They’re all unseason’d without it.
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Men Salt Way
Forbear, you things That stand upon the pinnacles of state, To boast your slippery height! when you do fall, You dash yourselves in pieces, ne’er to rise: And he that lends you pity, is not wise.
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Boast Fall Pieces Wise
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
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
Honor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.
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Hate Honor Men Time
If men will impartially, and not asquint, look toward the offices and function of a poet, they will easily conclude to themselves the impossibility of any man’s being a good poet without first being a good man.
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Good Man Men Office
Hell itself must yield to industry.
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Hell Industry Yield
I have no urns, no dusty monuments; No broken images of ancestors, Wanting an ear, or nose; no forged tales Of long descents, to boast false honors from.
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Broken Honor Long
Poets are far rarer birds than kings.
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Bird Kings Poet

Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .

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