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Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.

Ben Jonson

The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.
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Men Smoking
No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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Glasses Men Speech
I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
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Father Men Parent
Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
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Ambition Needs Slave
Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
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Beast Fats Mischief
Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast, Still to be powder’d, all perfum’d. Lady, it is to be presumed, Though art’s hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound.
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Art Causes Drest Near Sweet
Hell itself must yield to industry.
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Hell Industry Yield
Money never made any man rich, but his mind. He that can order himself to the law of nature, is not only without the sense, but the fear of poverty.
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Law Men Mind Order Sense
I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.
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Affected Eloquence Foolish
The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
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Orators Oratory Poet
Sweet Swan of Avon! What a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear.
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Sight Swans Sweet
Poets are far rarer birds than kings.
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Bird Kings Poet
[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.
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Conceited English Plain Play
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
Confound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
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Funny Humor Ideas
Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.
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Good Time Illustrate Men Stars

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