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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.

Ben Jonson

Rich apparel has strange virtues; it makes him that hath it without means esteemed for an excellent wit; he that enjoys it with means puts the world in remembrance of his means.
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Mean Remembrance Rich World
Many punishments sometimes, and in some cases, as much discredit a prince as many funerals a physician.
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Funeral Physicians Punishment
How near to good is what is fair!
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Fairs Good Goodness Near
I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.
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Compassion Justice Weakness
Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
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Anxiety Care Possession
Tis no sin love’s fruits to steal; But the sweet thefts to reveal; To be taken, to be seen, These have crimes accounted been.
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Fruit Sweet Taken
For whose sake, henceforth, all his vows be such, As what he loves may never like too much.
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Love May Sake
Freedom doth with degree dispense.
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Degree Dispense Freedom
Guilt’s a terrible thing.
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Guilt Terrible Things
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
Hang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.
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Care Cat Sorrow
Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.
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Guilt Guilty Shame
He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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Art Fool Inspirational
Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
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Frail Memories Mind
They, who know no evil, will suspect none.
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Evil Knows Suspect
Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
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Hate Hatred Ignorant

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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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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