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He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.

Ben Jonson

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
Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
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Clothes Countenance Wit
If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
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Illness Neurosis Sick
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
It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
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Giving Men Virtue
A good poet’s made as well as born.
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Born Made Poet
They, who know no evil, will suspect none.
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Evil Knows Suspect
Freedom doth with degree dispense.
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Degree Dispense Freedom
Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace Robes loosely flowing, hair as free Such sweet neglect more taketh me Than all the adulteries of art: They strike mine eyes, but not my heart.
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Art Eye Neglect Simplicity Sweet
Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
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Imperfect Light Opinion Things
Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!
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May Poetry War
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
Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.
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Good Man Heaven Men
Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
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Angry Concern Slander
Well, I will scourge those apes, And to these courteous eyes oppose a mirror, As large as is the stage whereon we act; Where they shall see the time’s deformity Anatomised in every nerve, and sinew, With constant courage, and contempt of fear.
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Act Apes Courage Eye Mirror Time
Calumnies are answered best with silence.
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Advice Silence

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