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Fear to do base, unworthy things is valor; if they be one to us, to suffer them is valor too.

Ben Jonson

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
All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
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Little Wise World
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
Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!
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May Poetry War
If you succeed not, cast not away the quills yet, nor scratch the wainscot, beat not the poor desk, but bring all to the forge and file again; turn it new.
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Crafts Scratches Succeed
Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
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Ambition Inspiration Looks
Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.
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Guilt Guilty Shame
Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.
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Praise Strikes Strokes
Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
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Court Deny Mistress
A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
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Good Loss Men Rise
Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
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Imperfect Light Opinion Things
Ods me I marle what pleasure or felicity they have in taking their roguish tobacco. It is good for nothing but to choke a man, and fill him full of smoke and embers.
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Cigarette Smoke Men Smoking
Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.
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Cutting Men Whispering
To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
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Change Men Want Welcome
If men will impartially, and not asquint, look toward the offices and function of a poet, they will easily conclude to themselves the impossibility of any man’s being a good poet without first being a good man.
BEN JONSON

Good Man Men Office
[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.
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Conceited English Plain Play

Fear to do base, unworthy things is valor; if they be one to us, to suffer them is valor too.

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