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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.

Ben Jonson

True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
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Friendship Happiness Positive
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
The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
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Dignity Life Losing
Princes that would their people should do well Must at themselves begin, as at the head; For men, by their example, pattern out Their limitations, and regard of laws: A virtuous court a world to virtue draws.
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Example Law Men Patteren People
It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
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Giving Men Virtue
A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.
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Gratitude Men Needs
I have been at my book; and am now past the craggy paths of study, and come to the flowery plains of honour and reputation
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Education Inspirational Past
It strikes! one, two, Three, four, five, six. Enough, enough, dear watch, Thy pulse hath beat enough. Now sleep and rest; Would thou could’st make the time to do so too; I’ll wind thee up no more.
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Enough Pulse Sleep Time Wind
He that is respectless in his courses oft sells his reputation at cheap market.
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Courses Reputation Sells
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.
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Cigarette Smoke Men Smoking
One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
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Character Trouble Women
Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
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Anxiety Care Possession
Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
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Angry Concern Slander
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
I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
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Glory Greed Wealth
Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast, Still to be powder’d, all perfum’d. Lady, it is to be presumed, Though art’s hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound.
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Art Causes Drest Near Sweet

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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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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