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Men that talk of their own benefits are not believed to talk of them because they have done them, but to have done them because they might talk of them.

Ben Jonson

Hell itself must yield to industry.
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Hell Industry Yield
The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
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Acknowledge Ass Devil
I feel my griefs too, and there scarce is ground Upon my flesh t’inflict another wound. Yet dare I not complain, or wish for death With holy Paul; lest it be thought the breath Of discontent; or that these prayers be For weariness of life, not love of thee.
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Another Grief Prayer Weariness Wish Wound
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
I’ll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news.
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False Giving News True
Blueness doth express trueness.
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Color Trueness
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
It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.
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Art Giving Lying
A good poet’s made as well as born.
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Born Made Poet
A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pestilence, it doth infect the houses of the brain till not a thought, or motion, in the mind, be free from the black poison of suspect.
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Black Brain House
If you succeed not, cast not away the quills yet, nor scratch the wainscot, beat not the poor desk, but bring all to the forge and file again; turn it new.
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Crafts Scratches Succeed
It holds for good polity ever, to have that outwardly in vilest estimation, which inwardly is most dear to us.
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Dear Estimation Hypocrisy
I now think, Love is rather deaf, than blind, For else it could not be, That she, Whom I adore so much, should so slight me, And cast my love behind.
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Blind Love Slight Thinking
If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
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Illness Neurosis Sick
Now we are all fallen, youth from their fear, And age from that which bred it, good example.
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Age Example Fallen Good Youth
Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
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Beast Flattery Tyrant

Men that talk of their own benefits are not believed to talk of them because they have done them, but to have done them because they might talk of them.

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