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O! How vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do.

Ben Jonson

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
Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
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Passion Spiritual Understanding
Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
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Art Enemy Ignorance
It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
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Giving Men Virtue
Drink today, and drown all sorrow; You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow; Best, while you have it, use your breath; There is no drinking after death.
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Drinking Sorrow Use
Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.
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Art Men Monsters
As it is a great point of art, when our matter requires it, to enlarge and veer out all sail, so to take it in and contract it is of no less praise when the argument doth ask it.
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Art Ask Matter Praise Style
Blueness doth express trueness.
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Color Trueness
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
There is no bounty to be showed to such As have real goodness: Bounty is A spice of virtue; and what virtuous act Can take effect on them that have no power Of equal habitude to apprehend it?
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Real Spices Virtue
The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
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Evil Hate Men Oppress
O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
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Forget Sun Time
The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
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Acknowledge Ass Devil
There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
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Fear Hell No Prisoner
Poets are far rarer birds than kings.
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Bird Kings Poet
Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
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Angry Concern Slander

O! How vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do.

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O! How vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do.

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