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Hang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.

Ben Jonson

Follow a shadow, it still flies you, Seem to fly, it will pursue: So court a mistress, she denies you; Let her alone, she will court you. Say are not women truly, then, Styled but the shadows of us men?
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Men Mistress Shadow
Honor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.
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Hate Honor Men Time
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
Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
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Clothes Countenance Wit
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
[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.
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Conceited English Plain Play
Money never made any man rich, but his mind. He that can order himself to the law of nature, is not only without the sense, but the fear of poverty.
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Law Men Mind Order Sense
Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.
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Folly Impudence Rudeness
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
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
It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
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Giving Men Virtue
Calumnies are answered best with silence.
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Advice Silence
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.
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Crafts Scratches Succeed
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
The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.
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Men Smoking
The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.
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Infinite Men Soul

Hang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.

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