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Ben Jonson

Ods me I marle what pleasure or felicity they have in taking their roguish tobacco. It is good for nothing but to choke a man, and fill him full of smoke and embers.
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Cigarette Smoke Men Smoking
The way to rise is to obey and please.
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Please Success Way
Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
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Hate Hatred Ignorant
Prevent your day at morning.
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Day Morning Prevent
Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.
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Heart Hypocrisy Spread
Nothing is more short-lived than pride.
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Live Pride Short
I know no disease of the soul but ignorance, a pernicious evil, the darkener of man’s life, the disturber of his reason, and common confounder of truth.
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Ignorance Men Science
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
Our whole life is like a play.
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Life Play Whole
As it is a great point of art, when our matter requires it, to enlarge and veer out all sail, so to take it in and contract it is of no less praise when the argument doth ask it.
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Art Ask Matter Praise Style
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
When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity.
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Enemy Grief Men
… the best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle.
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Anchors Needs Sea
Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.
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Past Winning Years
Hang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.
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Care Cat Sorrow
All concord’s born of contraries.
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Born Contradiction Contrary

Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.

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