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Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.

Ben Jonson

My thoughts and I were of another world.
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Another World Thoughts
Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
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Imperfect Light Opinion Things
I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
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Glory Greed Wealth
No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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Glasses Men Speech
Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace Robes loosely flowing, hair as free Such sweet neglect more taketh me Than all the adulteries of art: They strike mine eyes, but not my heart.
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Art Eye Neglect Simplicity Sweet
Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
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Passion Spiritual Understanding
The burnt child dreads the fire.
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Children Dread Fire
Indeed there’s a woundy luck in names.
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Indeed Luck Names Woundy
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
The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
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Men Money
One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
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Character Trouble Women
Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.
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Disease Mean Music
The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
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Orators Oratory Poet
I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
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Father Men Parent
It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
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Giving Men Virtue
Minds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause: ‘Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause.
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Applause Crowns Mind Virtue

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