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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

Your highest female grace is silence.
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Female Grace Silence
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
Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
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Mind Punishment Vices
Ready writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing.
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Good Ready Writing
It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.
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Art Giving Lying
Nor shall our cups make any guilty men; But at our parting, we will be, as when We innocently met.
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Cup Drinking Men
Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
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Court Deny Mistress
They, who know no evil, will suspect none.
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Evil Knows Suspect
God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man’s dearer than to himself.
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Men Strange Wrecks
Nor for my peace will I go far, As wanderers do, that still do roam, But make my strengths, such as they are, Here in my bosom, and at home.
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Home Stills Wanderers
No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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Glasses Men Speech
I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
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Glory Greed Wealth
And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow’d them with her odorous foot.
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Feet Flower Roots
Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
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Angry Concern Slander
When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity.
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Enemy Grief Men
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
Hell itself must yield to industry.
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Hell Industry Yield
I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
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Father Men Parent
No simple word That shall be uttered at our mirthful board, Shall make us sad next morning; or affright The liberty that we’ll enjoy to-night.
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Morning Regret Simple
A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
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Good Loss Men Rise
Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
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Death Good Man Men
A good man will avoid the spot of any sin. The very aspersion is grievous, which makes him choose his way in his life, as he would in his journey.
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Aspersion Choose Good Journey Men
Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
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Anarchy Drinking Thinking
He threatens many that hath injured one.
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Crime Injured Threaten
As it is a great point of art, when our matter requires it, to enlarge and veer out all sail, so to take it in and contract it is of no less praise when the argument doth ask it.
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Art Ask Matter Praise Style
Many might go to heaven with half the labour they go to hell, if they would venture their industry the right way.
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Half Heaven Venture
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

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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