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Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.

Ben Jonson

Drink today, and drown all sorrow; You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow; Best, while you have it, use your breath; There is no drinking after death.
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Drinking Sorrow Use
The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
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Acknowledge Ass Devil
Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
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Court Deny Mistress
All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
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Little Wise World
The way to rise is to obey and please.
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Please Success Way
Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
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Beast Fats Mischief
Fear to do base, unworthy things is valor; if they be one to us, to suffer them is valor too.
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Courage Suffering Valor
Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.
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Looks Meaning Weigh
Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
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Book Looks Reader
Books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction.
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Book Faithful May
Ods me I marle what pleasure or felicity they have in taking their roguish tobacco. It is good for nothing but to choke a man, and fill him full of smoke and embers.
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Cigarette Smoke Men Smoking
Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
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Ambition Needs Slave
Blueness doth express trueness.
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Color Trueness
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
Man and wife make one fool.
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Marriage Men Wife
I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.
BEN JONSON

Affected Eloquence Foolish

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