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There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.

Ben Jonson

Poor worms, they hiss at me, whilst I at home Can be contented to applaud myself, . . . with joy To see how plump my bags are and my barns.
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Home Joy
If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
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Illness Neurosis Sick
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
Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
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Hate Hatred Ignorant
The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
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Orators Oratory Poet
Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.
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Affliction Person Prayer Wicked
A lily of a day Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be.
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Die Fall Flower Night Proportion
Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
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Death Good Man Men
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
Calumnies are answered best with silence.
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Advice Silence
Your highest female grace is silence.
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Female Grace Silence
A valiant man Ought not to undergo, or tempt a danger, But worthily, and by selected ways, He undertakes with reason, not by chance. His valor is the salt t’ his other virtues, They’re all unseason’d without it.
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Men Salt Way
My thoughts and I were of another world.
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Another World Thoughts
Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
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Court Deny Mistress
Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.
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Cutting Men Whispering

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