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Honor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.

Ben Jonson

Now we are all fallen, youth from their fear, And age from that which bred it, good example.
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Age Example Fallen Good Youth
Sweet Swan of Avon! What a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear.
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Sight Swans Sweet
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
A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
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Good Loss Men Rise
A valiant man Ought not to undergo, or tempt a danger, But worthily, and by selected ways, He undertakes with reason, not by chance. His valor is the salt t’ his other virtues, They’re all unseason’d without it.
BEN JONSON

Men Salt Way
Aristotle was the first accurate critic and truest judge nay, the greatest philosopher the world ever had; for he noted the vices of all knowledges, in all creatures, and out of many men’s perfections in a science he formed still one Art.
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Art Judging Men
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
In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
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June Life Perfect Summer
Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
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Lines Sweat Writing
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 dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
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Dignity Life Losing
All concord’s born of contraries.
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Born Contradiction Contrary
The voice so sweet, the words so fair, As some soft chime had stroked the air; And though the sound had parted thence, Still left an echo in the sense.
BEN JONSON

Air Echoes Parted Sweet Thence
No man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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Easily May Men Taught Wise
He threatens many that hath injured one.
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Crime Injured Threaten
To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
BEN JONSON

Change Men Want Welcome

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