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That old bald cheater, Time.

Ben Jonson

Ambition, like a torrent, ne’er looks back; And is a swelling, and the last affection A high mind can put off; being both a rebel Unto the soul and reason, and enforceth All laws, all conscience, treads upon religion, and offereth violence to nature’s self.
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Ambition Conscience Law Rebel Self Soul
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
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
Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
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Dream Hate Hatred
Language most shows a man; speak that I may see thee; it springs out of the most retired and inmost parts of us, and is the image of the parent of it, the mind. No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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Glasses Men Spring
Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
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Mind Punishment Vices
Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
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Ambition Inspiration Looks
That old bald cheater, Time.
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Bald Cheater Old Time
Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
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Relax Reputation Ruins
Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
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Disease Talking
I do honor the very flea of his dog.
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Dog Hero Honor
One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
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Character Trouble Women
Nor use too swelling, or ill-sounded words . . . .
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Sounded Swelling Use Words
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
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
In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
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Absence Hope Love Miss Sweet

That old bald cheater, Time.

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