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We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.

Ben Jonson

Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
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Angry Concern Slander
I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
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Father Men Parent
True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
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Friendship Happiness Positive
[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.
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Conceited English Plain Play
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
True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
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Fine Melancholy Perfect Wit
Nor for my peace will I go far, As wanderers do, that still do roam, But make my strengths, such as they are, Here in my bosom, and at home.
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Home Stills Wanderers
Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.
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Envy Honor Two
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
All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
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Discourse Harsh Speech
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
Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
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Faces Home House
Many might go to heaven with half the labour they go to hell, if they would venture their industry the right way.
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Half Heaven Venture
Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
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Court Deny Mistress
Language most shows a man; speak that I may see thee; it springs out of the most retired and inmost parts of us, and is the image of the parent of it, the mind. No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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Glasses Men Spring
Chance will not do the work. Chance sends the breeze; But if the pilot slumber at the helm, The very wind that wafts us tow’rds the port May dash us on the shoals. The steersman’s part Is vigilance, or blow it rough or smooth.
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Blow Slumber Wind
Prevent your day at morning.
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Day Morning Prevent
Calumnies are answered best with silence.
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Advice Silence
He threatens many that hath injured one.
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Crime Injured Threaten
Nor shall our cups make any guilty men; But at our parting, we will be, as when We innocently met.
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Cup Drinking Men
Hell itself must yield to industry.
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Hell Industry Yield
Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.
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Art Men Monsters
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
Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I’ll not look for wine.
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Food Romantic Wine
Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
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Imperfect Light Opinion Things
Queen and huntress, chaste and fair Now the sun is laid to sleep, Seated in thy silver chair, State in wonted manner keep: Hesperus entreats thy light Goddess, excellently bright.
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Chair Light Queens Seated Sleep

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