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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.

Ben Jonson

Poor worms, they hiss at me, whilst I at home Can be contented to applaud myself, . . . with joy To see how plump my bags are and my barns.
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Home Joy
Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.
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Past Winning Years
I now think, Love is rather deaf, than blind, For else it could not be, That she, Whom I adore so much, should so slight me, And cast my love behind.
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Blind Love Slight Thinking
A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
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Good Loss Men Rise
A good king is a public servant.
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Good King Kings Servant
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
Blueness doth express trueness.
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Color Trueness
The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.
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Birthday Praying Return
A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
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Eye Government Letter
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
Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.
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Looks Meaning Weigh
To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
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Communication Motivational Wise
No man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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Easily May Men Taught Wise
Confound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
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Funny Humor Ideas
Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
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Frail Memories Mind
There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
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Fear Hell No Prisoner

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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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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