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My thoughts and I were of another world.

Ben Jonson

I have no urns, no dusty monuments; No broken images of ancestors, Wanting an ear, or nose; no forged tales Of long descents, to boast false honors from.
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Broken Honor Long
Minds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause: ‘Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause.
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Applause Crowns Mind Virtue
I know no disease of the soul but ignorance, a pernicious evil, the darkener of man’s life, the disturber of his reason, and common confounder of truth.
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Ignorance Men Science
Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
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Passion Spiritual Understanding
I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
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Father Men Parent
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
Fortune, that favors fools.
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Favors Fool Fortune
No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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Glasses Men Speech
Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
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Art Enemy Ignorance
Tell troth and shame the devil.
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Devil Shame Truth
That old bald cheater, Time.
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Bald Cheater Old Time
A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pestilence, it doth infect the houses of the brain till not a thought, or motion, in the mind, be free from the black poison of suspect.
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Black Brain House
For whose sake, henceforth, all his vows be such, As what he loves may never like too much.
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Love May Sake
Honor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.
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Hate Honor Men Time
Tis no sin love’s fruits to steal; But the sweet thefts to reveal; To be taken, to be seen, These have crimes accounted been.
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Fruit Sweet Taken
I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.
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Affected Eloquence Foolish

My thoughts and I were of another world.

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