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Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.

Ben Jonson

Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
BEN JONSON

Passion Spiritual Understanding
I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
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Father Men Parent
Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.
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Guilt Guilty Shame
A lily of a day Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be.
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Die Fall Flower Night Proportion
Many punishments sometimes, and in some cases, as much discredit a prince as many funerals a physician.
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Funeral Physicians Punishment
Nothing is more short-lived than pride.
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Live Pride Short
There is no bounty to be showed to such As have real goodness: Bounty is A spice of virtue; and what virtuous act Can take effect on them that have no power Of equal habitude to apprehend it?
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Real Spices Virtue
Nor use too swelling, or ill-sounded words . . . .
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Sounded Swelling Use Words
It is less dishonor to hear imperfectly than to speak imperfectly. The ears are excused; the understanding is not.
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Ears Speak Understanding
True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
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Joy Speak Tongue
A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pestilence, it doth infect the houses of the brain till not a thought, or motion, in the mind, be free from the black poison of suspect.
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Black Brain House
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
All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
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Discourse Harsh Speech
No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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Glasses Men Speech
Sweet meat must have sour sauce.
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Meat Swans Sweet
Ambition, like a torrent, ne’er looks back; And is a swelling, and the last affection A high mind can put off; being both a rebel Unto the soul and reason, and enforceth All laws, all conscience, treads upon religion, and offereth violence to nature’s self.
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Ambition Conscience Law Rebel Self Soul
O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
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Forget Sun Time
Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!
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Age Delight Soul Wonder
Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
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Anarchy Drinking Thinking
One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
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Character Trouble Women
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
Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.
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Art Men Monsters
It is a note Of upstart greatness to observe and watch For these poor trifles, which the noble mind Neglects and scorns.
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Greatness Mind Scorn Watches
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
Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star.
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Fall Love Stars
The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.
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Infinite Men Soul
Rich apparel has strange virtues; it makes him that hath it without means esteemed for an excellent wit; he that enjoys it with means puts the world in remembrance of his means.
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Mean Remembrance Rich World

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