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Chance will not do the work. Chance sends the breeze; But if the pilot slumber at the helm, The very wind that wafts us tow’rds the port May dash us on the shoals. The steersman’s part Is vigilance, or blow it rough or smooth.

Ben Jonson

I’ll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news.
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False Giving News True
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
A good dog deserves a good bone.
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Bones Canine Dog
No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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Glasses Men Speech
He that is respectless in his courses oft sells his reputation at cheap market.
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Courses Reputation Sells
There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
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Fear Hell No Prisoner
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
Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I’ll not look for wine.
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Food Romantic Wine
Nor use too swelling, or ill-sounded words . . . .
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Sounded Swelling Use Words
There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
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Creeds Doctrine Good Waiting
Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
BEN JONSON

Mind Punishment Vices
Ods me I marle what pleasure or felicity they have in taking their roguish tobacco. It is good for nothing but to choke a man, and fill him full of smoke and embers.
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Cigarette Smoke Men Smoking
If you succeed not, cast not away the quills yet, nor scratch the wainscot, beat not the poor desk, but bring all to the forge and file again; turn it new.
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Crafts Scratches Succeed
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
Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
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Ambition Needs Slave
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

Chance will not do the work. Chance sends the breeze; But if the pilot slumber at the helm, The very wind that wafts us tow’rds the port May dash us on the shoals. The steersman’s part Is vigilance, or blow it rough or smooth.

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Chance will not do the work. Chance sends the breeze; But if the pilot slumber at the helm, The very wind that wafts us tow’rds the port May dash us on the shoals. The steersman’s part Is vigilance, or blow it rough or smooth.

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