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Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .

Ben Jonson

Many might go to heaven with half the labour they go to hell, if they would venture their industry the right way.
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Half Heaven Venture
Confound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
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Funny Humor Ideas
I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
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Father Men Parent
He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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Art Fool Inspirational
Princes that would their people should do well Must at themselves begin, as at the head; For men, by their example, pattern out Their limitations, and regard of laws: A virtuous court a world to virtue draws.
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Example Law Men Patteren People
When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity.
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Enemy Grief Men
Many punishments sometimes, and in some cases, as much discredit a prince as many funerals a physician.
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Funeral Physicians Punishment
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
Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
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Frail Memories Mind
Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
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Ambition Inspiration Looks
The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.
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Men Smoking
In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
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Absence Hope Love Miss Sweet
We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.
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Fashion Quality Women
How ready is heaven to those that pray!
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Heaven Prayer Praying
Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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Force Free Nature Servile
If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.
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Art Being Poverty True

Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .

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