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Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.

Ben Jonson

Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
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Mind Punishment Vices
Money never made any man rich, but his mind. He that can order himself to the law of nature, is not only without the sense, but the fear of poverty.
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Law Men Mind Order Sense
That old bald cheater, Time.
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Bald Cheater Old Time
Hell itself must yield to industry.
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Hell Industry Yield
When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity.
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Enemy Grief Men
Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
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Ambition Needs Slave
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
As it is a great point of art, when our matter requires it, to enlarge and veer out all sail, so to take it in and contract it is of no less praise when the argument doth ask it.
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Art Ask Matter Praise Style
Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
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Lines Sweat Writing
Aristotle was the first accurate critic and truest judge nay, the greatest philosopher the world ever had; for he noted the vices of all knowledges, in all creatures, and out of many men’s perfections in a science he formed still one Art.
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Art Judging Men
All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
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Little Wise World
Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
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Clothes Countenance Wit
Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.
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Heart Hypocrisy Spread
It is as great a spite to be praised in the wrong place, and by a wrong person, as can be done to a noble nature.
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Done Noble Person Wrong
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.
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Home Stills Wanderers
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

Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.

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