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O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!

Ben Jonson

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
True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
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Friendship Happiness Positive
He was not of an age, but for all time!
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Age Time
Chance will not do the work. Chance sends the breeze; But if the pilot slumber at the helm, The very wind that wafts us tow’rds the port May dash us on the shoals. The steersman’s part Is vigilance, or blow it rough or smooth.
BEN JONSON

Blow Slumber Wind
Drink today, and drown all sorrow; You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow; Best, while you have it, use your breath; There is no drinking after death.
BEN JONSON

Drinking Sorrow Use
Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.
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Envy Honor Two
True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
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Joy Speak Tongue
A good life is a main argument.
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Argument Good Inspirational Life
Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
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Court Deny Mistress
O! How vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do.
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Fear Men Passion
I have no urns, no dusty monuments; No broken images of ancestors, Wanting an ear, or nose; no forged tales Of long descents, to boast false honors from.
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Broken Honor Long
Freedom doth with degree dispense.
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Degree Dispense Freedom
Books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction.
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Book Faithful May
There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
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Fear Hell No Prisoner
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
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

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