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It is a note Of upstart greatness to observe and watch For these poor trifles, which the noble mind Neglects and scorns.

Ben Jonson

The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
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Acknowledge Ass Devil
My thoughts and I were of another world.
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Another World Thoughts
If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
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Illness Neurosis Sick
And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow’d them with her odorous foot.
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Feet Flower Roots
I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.
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Affected Eloquence Foolish
What excellent fools religion makes of men.
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Men Religion Religious
A good man will avoid the spot of any sin. The very aspersion is grievous, which makes him choose his way in his life, as he would in his journey.
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Aspersion Choose Good Journey Men
The way to rise is to obey and please.
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Please Success Way
For he that once is good, is ever great.
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Good Greatness Once
They, who know no evil, will suspect none.
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Evil Knows Suspect
If men will impartially, and not asquint, look toward the offices and function of a poet, they will easily conclude to themselves the impossibility of any man’s being a good poet without first being a good man.
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Good Man Men Office
Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
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Angry Concern Slander
Sweet Swan of Avon! What a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear.
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Sight Swans Sweet
The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
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Dignity Life Losing
Fortune, that favors fools.
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Favors Fool Fortune
Where dost thou careless lie, Buried in ease and sloth? Knowledge that sleeps, doth die; And this security, It is the common moth, That eats on wits and arts, and oft destroys them both.
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Art Common Lying Security Sleep

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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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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