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Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.

Ben Jonson

Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
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Faces Home House
You are not now to think what’s best to do, As in beginnings, but what must be done, Being thus enter’d; and slip no advantage That may secure you. Let them call it mischief; When it is past, and prosper’d , ’twill be virtue.
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Mischief Past Virtue
Ods me I marle what pleasure or felicity they have in taking their roguish tobacco. It is good for nothing but to choke a man, and fill him full of smoke and embers.
BEN JONSON

Cigarette Smoke Men Smoking
Nor for my peace will I go far, As wanderers do, that still do roam, But make my strengths, such as they are, Here in my bosom, and at home.
BEN JONSON

Home Stills Wanderers
A lily of a day Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be.
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Die Fall Flower Night Proportion
To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
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Change Men Want Welcome
A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.
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Gratitude Men Needs
Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.
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Folly Impudence Rudeness
Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
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Disease Talking
Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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Fortune Men
Indeed there’s a woundy luck in names.
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Indeed Luck Names Woundy
He was not of an age, but for all time!
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Age Time
The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
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Orators Oratory Poet
Honor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.
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Hate Honor Men Time
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
Success hath made me wanton.
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Hath Made Success Wanton
Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
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Lines Sweat Writing
A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
BEN JONSON

Eye Government Letter
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
Very few men are wise by their own council, or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself, had a fool for a master.
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Men Teaching Wise
Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star.
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Fall Love Stars
Forbear, you things That stand upon the pinnacles of state, To boast your slippery height! when you do fall, You dash yourselves in pieces, ne’er to rise: And he that lends you pity, is not wise.
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Boast Fall Pieces Wise
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
How ready is heaven to those that pray!
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Heaven Prayer Praying
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
I do honor the very flea of his dog.
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Dog Hero Honor
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

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