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Hell itself must yield to industry.

Ben Jonson

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
Well, I will scourge those apes, And to these courteous eyes oppose a mirror, As large as is the stage whereon we act; Where they shall see the time’s deformity Anatomised in every nerve, and sinew, With constant courage, and contempt of fear.
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Act Apes Courage Eye Mirror Time
My thoughts and I were of another world.
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Another World Thoughts
The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.
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Men Smoking
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
Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!
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May Poetry War
True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
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Joy Speak Tongue
Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
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Angry Concern Slander
Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
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Art Enemy Ignorance
A good man will avoid the spot of any sin. The very aspersion is grievous, which makes him choose his way in his life, as he would in his journey.
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Aspersion Choose Good Journey Men
Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.
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Cutting Men Whispering
He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
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Honesty Vulgar
All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
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Discourse Harsh Speech
The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
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Dignity Life Losing
Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
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Ambition Inspiration Looks
A good king is a public servant.
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Good King Kings Servant

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