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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

Truth is man’s proper good, and the only immortal thing was given to our mortality to use.
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Men Truth Use
The world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
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Conceited Fools Rome Two
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
Freedom doth with degree dispense.
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Degree Dispense Freedom
Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
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Death Good Man Men
One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
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Character Trouble Women
A good king is a public servant.
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Good King Kings Servant
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
The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.
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Birthday Praying Return
If you succeed not, cast not away the quills yet, nor scratch the wainscot, beat not the poor desk, but bring all to the forge and file again; turn it new.
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Crafts Scratches Succeed
Fortune, that favors fools.
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Favors Fool Fortune
O! How vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do.
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Fear Men Passion
The voice so sweet, the words so fair, As some soft chime had stroked the air; And though the sound had parted thence, Still left an echo in the sense.
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Air Echoes Parted Sweet Thence
There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
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Creeds Doctrine Good Waiting
Indeed there’s a woundy luck in names.
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Indeed Luck Names Woundy
Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
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Dream Hate Hatred

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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