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Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .

Ben Jonson

You learn nothing about someone by the way they win the fight, you learn everything about the way they lose and keep coming back.
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Art Fighting Winning
That old bald cheater, Time.
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Bald Cheater Old Time
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
Money never made any man rich, but his mind. He that can order himself to the law of nature, is not only without the sense, but the fear of poverty.
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Law Men Mind Order Sense
Wine it is the milk of Venus, And the poet’s horse accounted: Ply it and you all are mounted.
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Horse Plies Wine
Blueness doth express trueness.
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Color Trueness
The burnt child dreads the fire.
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Children Dread Fire
My thoughts and I were of another world.
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Another World Thoughts
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
Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
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Boys Mean Money
True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
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Joy Speak Tongue
It holds for good polity ever, to have that outwardly in vilest estimation, which inwardly is most dear to us.
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Dear Estimation Hypocrisy
Poets are far rarer birds than kings.
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Bird Kings Poet
Many might go to heaven with half the labour they go to hell, if they would venture their industry the right way.
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Half Heaven Venture
It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
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Giving Men Virtue
Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
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Anxiety Care Possession
A good man will avoid the spot of any sin. The very aspersion is grievous, which makes him choose his way in his life, as he would in his journey.
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Aspersion Choose Good Journey Men
We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.
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Fashion Quality Women
Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.
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Praise Strikes Strokes
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 pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.
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Men Smoking
Follow a shadow, it still flies you, Seem to fly, it will pursue: So court a mistress, she denies you; Let her alone, she will court you. Say are not women truly, then, Styled but the shadows of us men?
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Men Mistress Shadow
I know no disease of the soul but ignorance, a pernicious evil, the darkener of man’s life, the disturber of his reason, and common confounder of truth.
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Ignorance Men Science
Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
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Disease Talking
Confound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
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Funny Humor Ideas
The two chief things that give a man reputation in counsel, are the opinion of his honesty, and the opinion of his wisdom; the authority of those two will persuade.
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Honesty Men Persuade Simple Two Wisdom
Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.
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Beer Drink Wells

Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .

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