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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
Minds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause: ‘Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause.
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Applause Crowns Mind Virtue
True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
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Friendship Happiness Positive
Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!
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May Poetry War
A good life is a main argument.
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Argument Good Inspirational Life
To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
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Communication Motivational Wise
Silence in woman is like speech in man.
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Men Silence Speech
I am beholden to calumny, that she hath so endeavored to belie me.-It shall make me set a surer guard on myself, and keep a better watch upon my actions.
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Action Calumny Watches
Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
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Anarchy Drinking Thinking
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
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
All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
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Little Wise World
Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.
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Cutting Men Whispering
O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
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Forget Sun Time
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
True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
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Fine Melancholy Perfect Wit

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