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It is the highest of earthly honors to be descended from the great and good. They alone cry out against a noble ancestry who have none of their own.

Ben Jonson

I know no disease of the soul but ignorance, a pernicious evil, the darkener of man’s life, the disturber of his reason, and common confounder of truth.
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Ignorance Men Science
Books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction.
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Book Faithful May
To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.
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Long Pleasure Treasure
Silence in woman is like speech in man.
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Men Silence Speech
If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
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Illness Neurosis Sick
It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
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Giving Men Virtue
As it is a great point of art, when our matter requires it, to enlarge and veer out all sail, so to take it in and contract it is of no less praise when the argument doth ask it.
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Art Ask Matter Praise Style
O! How vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do.
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Fear Men Passion
You are not now to think what’s best to do, As in beginnings, but what must be done, Being thus enter’d; and slip no advantage That may secure you. Let them call it mischief; When it is past, and prosper’d , ’twill be virtue.
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Mischief Past Virtue
Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
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Court Deny Mistress
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
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
To struggle when hope is banished! To live when life’s salt is gone! To dwell in a dream that’s vanished- To endure, and go calmly on!
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Dream Life Struggle Vanish
Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.
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Folly Impudence Rudeness
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
I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never plotted out a line. My answer hath been, would he had blotted a thousand.
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