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A good poet’s made as well as born.

Ben Jonson

And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow’d them with her odorous foot.
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Feet Flower Roots
The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.
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Men Smoking
How ready is heaven to those that pray!
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Heaven Prayer Praying
They, who know no evil, will suspect none.
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Evil Knows Suspect
God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man’s dearer than to himself.
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Men Strange Wrecks
It is less dishonor to hear imperfectly than to speak imperfectly. The ears are excused; the understanding is not.
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Ears Speak Understanding
It is a note Of upstart greatness to observe and watch For these poor trifles, which the noble mind Neglects and scorns.
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Greatness Mind Scorn Watches
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
A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.
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Gratitude Men Needs
The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
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Orators Oratory Poet
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
Nothing is more short-lived than pride.
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Live Pride Short
I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.
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Compassion Justice Weakness
Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.
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Praise Strikes Strokes
Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.
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Beer Drink Wells
I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
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Father Men Parent

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