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In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.

Ben Jonson

Rich apparel has strange virtues; it makes him that hath it without means esteemed for an excellent wit; he that enjoys it with means puts the world in remembrance of his means.
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Mean Remembrance Rich World
Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
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Ambition Inspiration Looks
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.
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Blow Slumber Wind
Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast, Still to be powder’d, all perfum’d. Lady, it is to be presumed, Though art’s hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound.
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Art Causes Drest Near Sweet
If men will impartially, and not asquint, look toward the offices and function of a poet, they will easily conclude to themselves the impossibility of any man’s being a good poet without first being a good man.
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Good Man Men Office
Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
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Relax Reputation Ruins
Nor shall our cups make any guilty men; But at our parting, we will be, as when We innocently met.
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Cup Drinking Men
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
Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.
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Good Time Illustrate Men Stars
The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
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Evil Hate Men Oppress
A good poet’s made as well as born.
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Born Made Poet
Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
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Lines Sweat Writing
In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
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Absence Hope Love Miss Sweet
Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.
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Art Men Monsters
I have been at my book; and am now past the craggy paths of study, and come to the flowery plains of honour and reputation
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Education Inspirational Past
Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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Force Free Nature Servile

In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.

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