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

Ben Jonson

It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
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Giving Men Virtue
If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
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Illness Neurosis Sick
Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.
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Art Men Monsters
Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
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Faces Home House
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
Fortune, that favors fools.
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Favors Fool Fortune
Whosoever loves not picture is injurious to truth, and all the wisdom of poetry. Picture is the invention of heaven, the most ancient and most akin to nature. It is itself a silent work, and always one and the same habit.
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Ancient Heaven Silent
Honor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.
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Hate Honor Men Time
Sweet Swan of Avon! What a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear.
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Sight Swans Sweet
To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.
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Long Pleasure Treasure
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
Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
BEN JONSON

Mind Punishment Vices
The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
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Orators Oratory Poet
How ready is heaven to those that pray!
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Heaven Prayer Praying
How near to good is what is fair!
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Fairs Good Goodness Near
If men will impartially, and not asquint, look toward the offices and function of a poet, they will easily conclude to themselves the impossibility of any man’s being a good poet without first being a good man.
BEN JONSON

Good Man Men Office

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