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My thoughts and I were of another world.

Ben Jonson

I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.
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Affected Eloquence Foolish
For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries: to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of his own style.
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Exercise Men Writing
Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed That sets his doors wide open to a thief, And shows the felon where his treasure lies?
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Doors Judgment Lying Treasure
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
Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.
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Looks Meaning Weigh
Fear to do base, unworthy things is valor; if they be one to us, to suffer them is valor too.
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Courage Suffering Valor
Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.
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Beer Drink Wells
Truth is man’s proper good, and the only immortal thing was given to our mortality to use.
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Men Truth Use
Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.
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Envy Honor Two
A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
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Good Loss Men Rise
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
In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
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Absence Hope Love Miss Sweet
All concord’s born of contraries.
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Born Contradiction Contrary
O! How vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do.
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Fear Men Passion
A good life is a main argument.
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Argument Good Inspirational Life
True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
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Fine Melancholy Perfect Wit

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