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

Ben Jonson

I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.
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Compassion Justice Weakness
No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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Glasses Men Speech
Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
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Disease Talking
The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.
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Infinite Men Soul
How near to good is what is fair!
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Fairs Good Goodness Near
If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.
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Art Being Poverty True
God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man’s dearer than to himself.
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Men Strange Wrecks
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
Ready writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing.
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Good Ready Writing
Man and wife make one fool.
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Marriage Men Wife
Poor worms, they hiss at me, whilst I at home Can be contented to applaud myself, . . . with joy To see how plump my bags are and my barns.
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Home Joy
They, who know no evil, will suspect none.
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Evil Knows Suspect
Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
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Clothes Countenance Wit
Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.
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Looks Meaning Weigh
… the best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle.
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Anchors Needs Sea
Hang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.
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Care Cat Sorrow

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