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Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.

Ben Jonson

True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
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Fine Melancholy Perfect Wit
All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
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Little Wise World
To struggle when hope is banished! To live when life’s salt is gone! To dwell in a dream that’s vanished- To endure, and go calmly on!
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Dream Life Struggle Vanish
A good dog deserves a good bone.
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Bones Canine Dog
Tell troth and shame the devil.
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Devil Shame Truth
All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
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Discourse Harsh Speech
That old bald cheater, Time.
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Bald Cheater Old Time
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
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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Art Eye Neglect Simplicity Sweet
Hang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.
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Care Cat Sorrow
He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
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Honesty Vulgar
Wine it is the milk of Venus, And the poet’s horse accounted: Ply it and you all are mounted.
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Horse Plies Wine
Hell itself must yield to industry.
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Hell Industry Yield
Minds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause: ‘Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause.
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Applause Crowns Mind Virtue
It is the highest of earthly honors to be descended from the great and good. They alone cry out against a noble ancestry who have none of their own.
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Ancestry Honor Noble
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

Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.

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