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Many punishments sometimes, and in some cases, as much discredit a prince as many funerals a physician.

Ben Jonson

Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
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Clothes Countenance Wit
Honor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.
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Hate Honor Men Time
I’ll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news.
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False Giving News True
Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.
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Affliction Person Prayer Wicked
Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
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Court Deny Mistress
Aristotle was the first accurate critic and truest judge nay, the greatest philosopher the world ever had; for he noted the vices of all knowledges, in all creatures, and out of many men’s perfections in a science he formed still one Art.
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Art Judging Men
Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
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Dream Hate Hatred
Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
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Death Good Man Men
Wine it is the milk of Venus, And the poet’s horse accounted: Ply it and you all are mounted.
BEN JONSON

Horse Plies Wine
It is as great a spite to be praised in the wrong place, and by a wrong person, as can be done to a noble nature.
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Done Noble Person Wrong
One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
BEN JONSON

Character Trouble Women
Follow a shadow, it still flies you, Seem to fly, it will pursue: So court a mistress, she denies you; Let her alone, she will court you. Say are not women truly, then, Styled but the shadows of us men?
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Men Mistress Shadow
Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
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Art Enemy Ignorance
Calumnies are answered best with silence.
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Advice Silence
Language most shows a man; speak that I may see thee; it springs out of the most retired and inmost parts of us, and is the image of the parent of it, the mind. No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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Glasses Men Spring
Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.
BEN JONSON

Disease Mean Music

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