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

Ben Jonson

Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.
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Art Men Monsters
Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.
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Cutting Men Whispering
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
Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.
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Beer Drink Wells
For they have the authority of years, and out of their intermission do win to themselves a kind of grace-like newness. But the eldest of the present, and newest of the past Language, is the best.
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Intermission Newest Present Themselves
The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
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Acknowledge Ass Devil
Indeed there’s a woundy luck in names.
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Indeed Luck Names Woundy
I now think, Love is rather deaf, than blind, For else it could not be, That she, Whom I adore so much, should so slight me, And cast my love behind.
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Blind Love Slight Thinking
Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!
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Age Delight Soul Wonder
Drink today, and drown all sorrow; You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow; Best, while you have it, use your breath; There is no drinking after death.
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Drinking Sorrow Use
Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
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Anxiety Care Possession
Sweet Swan of Avon! What a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear.
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Sight Swans Sweet
Calumnies are answered best with silence.
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Advice Silence
Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.
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Looks Meaning Weigh
What excellent fools religion makes of men.
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Men Religion Religious
It holds for good polity ever, to have that outwardly in vilest estimation, which inwardly is most dear to us.
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Dear Estimation Hypocrisy

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

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