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Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.

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The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
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Men Money
Sweet Swan of Avon! What a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear.
BEN JONSON

Sight Swans Sweet
Wine it is the milk of Venus, And the poet’s horse accounted: Ply it and you all are mounted.
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Horse Plies Wine
He that is respectless in his courses oft sells his reputation at cheap market.
BEN JONSON

Courses Reputation Sells
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
If you succeed not, cast not away the quills yet, nor scratch the wainscot, beat not the poor desk, but bring all to the forge and file again; turn it new.
BEN JONSON

Crafts Scratches Succeed
The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
BEN JONSON

Orators Oratory Poet
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.
BEN JONSON

Glasses Men Spring
The two chief things that give a man reputation in counsel, are the opinion of his honesty, and the opinion of his wisdom; the authority of those two will persuade.
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Honesty Men Persuade Simple Two Wisdom
Sweet meat must have sour sauce.
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Meat Swans Sweet
Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
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Boys Mean Money
All concord’s born of contraries.
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Born Contradiction Contrary
Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!
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May Poetry War
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
Fortune, that favors fools.
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Favors Fool Fortune
The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
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Dignity Life Losing

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