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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

Money never made any man rich, but his mind. He that can order himself to the law of nature, is not only without the sense, but the fear of poverty.
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Law Men Mind Order Sense
Fortune, that favors fools.
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Favors Fool Fortune
Sweet Swan of Avon! What a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear.
BEN JONSON

Sight Swans Sweet
Confound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
BEN JONSON

Funny Humor Ideas
A good king is a public servant.
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Good King Kings Servant
The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
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Dignity Life Losing
It holds for good polity ever, to have that outwardly in vilest estimation, which inwardly is most dear to us.
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Dear Estimation Hypocrisy
Peace is never more than one thought away.
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Away Harmony More Peace
Ambition, like a torrent, ne’er looks back; And is a swelling, and the last affection A high mind can put off; being both a rebel Unto the soul and reason, and enforceth All laws, all conscience, treads upon religion, and offereth violence to nature’s self.
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Ambition Conscience Law Rebel Self Soul
If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
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Illness Neurosis Sick
It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
BEN JONSON

Giving Men Virtue
Men that talk of their own benefits are not believed to talk of them because they have done them, but to have done them because they might talk of them.
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Benefits Done Men
The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
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Men Money
I am beholden to calumny, that she hath so endeavored to belie me.-It shall make me set a surer guard on myself, and keep a better watch upon my actions.
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Action Calumny Watches
Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
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Boys Mean Money
You are not now to think what’s best to do, As in beginnings, but what must be done, Being thus enter’d; and slip no advantage That may secure you. Let them call it mischief; When it is past, and prosper’d , ’twill be virtue.
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Mischief Past Virtue

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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