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Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I’ll not look for wine.
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Food Romantic Wine
A good life is a main argument.
BEN JONSON

Argument Good Inspirational Life
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
Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
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Lines Sweat Writing
They, who know no evil, will suspect none.
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Evil Knows Suspect
All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
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Discourse Harsh Speech
Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.
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Cutting Men Whispering
It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
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Giving Men Virtue
Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
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Disease Talking
True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
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Fine Melancholy Perfect Wit
A good poet’s made as well as born.
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Born Made Poet
A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
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Good Loss Men Rise
Prevent your day at morning.
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Day Morning Prevent
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
Honor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.
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Hate Honor Men Time
The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.
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Men Smoking

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