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Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .

Ben Jonson

He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
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Honesty Vulgar
How near to good is what is fair!
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Fairs Good Goodness Near
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
Nothing is more short-lived than pride.
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Live Pride Short
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
Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.
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Envy Honor Two
Many punishments sometimes, and in some cases, as much discredit a prince as many funerals a physician.
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Funeral Physicians Punishment
God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man’s dearer than to himself.
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Men Strange Wrecks
Prevent your day at morning.
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Day Morning Prevent
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
He threatens many that hath injured one.
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Crime Injured Threaten
Peace is never more than one thought away.
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Away Harmony More Peace
Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
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Lines Sweat Writing
Blueness doth express trueness.
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Color Trueness
Let argument bear no unmusical sound.
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Argument Bears Sound
The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
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Evil Hate Men Oppress

Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .

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