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Ben Jonson

Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!
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May Poetry War
How ready is heaven to those that pray!
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Heaven Prayer Praying
In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
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Absence Hope Love Miss Sweet
Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
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Faces Home House
There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
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Fear Hell No Prisoner
Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.
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Cutting Men Whispering
One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
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Character Trouble Women
Calumnies are answered best with silence.
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Advice Silence
To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
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Communication Motivational Wise
I feel my griefs too, and there scarce is ground Upon my flesh t’inflict another wound. Yet dare I not complain, or wish for death With holy Paul; lest it be thought the breath Of discontent; or that these prayers be For weariness of life, not love of thee.
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Another Grief Prayer Weariness Wish Wound
Where dost thou careless lie, Buried in ease and sloth? Knowledge that sleeps, doth die; And this security, It is the common moth, That eats on wits and arts, and oft destroys them both.
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Art Common Lying Security Sleep
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
A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.
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Gratitude Men Needs
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
True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
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Joy Speak Tongue
Hang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.
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Care Cat Sorrow

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